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A theoretical perspective on action consequences in action imagery: internal prediction as an essential mechanism to detect errors.
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- Dynamic motor imagery, but not pre-execution movements, enhances serve tennis performance.Psychological research · 2026Article
- One size Fitts' all? Reconsidering the use of deviations from real-time action imagery in mental chronometry tasks.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Distance-dependent modulation of sensory attenuation during motor imagery and overt action.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- ISEED: an always-on cognitive architecture for experience-driven interaction-oriented humanoid robots.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2026Article
- Recommendations for Combining Brain-Computer Interface, Motor Imagery, and Virtual Reality in Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation: Qualitative Participatory Design Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2025Article
- Even with exposure to errors, motor imagery cannot update internal models.Psychological research · 2025Article
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- Trajectory priming through obstacle avoidance in motor imagery - does motor imagery comprise the spatial characteristics of movement?Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Motor imagery, forward models and the cerebellum: a commentary on Rieger et al., 2023.Psychological research · 2024Review
- The multisensory nature of human action imagery.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Why motor imagery is not really motoric: towards a re-conceptualization in terms of effect-based action control.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Learning motor actions via imagery-perceptual or motor learning?Psychological research · 2024Review
- Candidate brain regions for motor imagery practice: a commentary on Rieger et al., 2023.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Imagery and motor learning: a special issue on the neurocognitive mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Kinesthetic vs. visual focus: No evidence for effects of practice modality in representation types after action imagery practice and action execution practice.Human movement science · 2023Article
- A Quantitative Investigation of Mental Fatigue Elicited during Motor Imagery Practice: Selective Effects on Maximal Force Performance and Imagery Ability.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Inter-task transfer of force gains is facilitated by motor imagery.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Acting in the environment results in both intended and unintended consequences. Action consequences provide feedback about the adequacy of actions while they are in progress and when they are completed and therefore contribute to monitoring actions, facilitate error detection, and are crucial for motor learning. In action imagery, no actual action takes place, and consequently, no actual action consequences are produced. However, imagined action consequences may replace actual action consequences, serving a similar function and facilitating performance improvements akin to that occurring with actual actions. In this paper, we conceptualize action imagery as a simulation based on internal models. During that simulation, forward models predict action consequences. A comparison of predicted and intended action consequences sometimes indicates the occurrence of action errors (or deviations from optimal performance) in action imagery. We review research indicating that action errors are indeed sometimes imagined in action imagery. These results are compatible with the view that action imagery is based on motor simulation but incompatible with the view that action imagery is solely based on abstract knowledge. The outlined framework seems suitable to cover a wide range of action imagery phenomena and can explain action imagery practice effects.
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