Trial reportPsychological research2024
Differences in motor imagery abilities in active and sedentary individuals: new insights from backward-walking imagination.
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- Beneficial effects of imagination of successful action after an actual error on baseline performances in non-expert young tennis players.Psychological research · 2024Trial
- Actual and imagined music-cued gait training for people with multiple sclerosis: a multicentre qualitative study.BMJ open · 2024Trial
- One size Fitts' all? Reconsidering the use of deviations from real-time action imagery in mental chronometry tasks.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Can an active lifestyle maintain cognitive efficiency in older adults? A pilot study of the relationship between physical activity and graphic fluency.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Cognitive performance, sleep quality and physical activity as predictors of functional mobility in older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Executive function and spatial abilities in physically active children: an explorative study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Sporting Mind: The Interplay of Physical Activity and Psychological Health.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Evidence has shown that imagining a complex action, like backward-walking, helps improve the execution of the gesture. Despite this, studies in sport psychology have provided heterogeneous results on the use of motor imagery (MI) to improve performance. We aimed to fill this gap by analyzing how sport experience influences backward-walking MI processes in a sample of young women (n = 41, mean age = 21 ± 2.2) divided into Active and Sedentary. All participants were allocated to two randomized mental chronometric tasks, in which they had first to imagine and then execute forward-walking (FW) and backward-walking (BW). The Isochrony Efficiency measured the difference between imagination and execution times in both conditions (FW and BW). Moreover, we analyzed the ability to vividly imagine FW and BW within various perspectives in both groups through the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ-2). Findings showed that active individuals performed better in the BW imagery task when compared to sedentary ones (F
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