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Does implicit motor imagery ability predict reaching correction efficiency? A test of recent models of human motor control
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Christian HydeChristian Hyde, K Wilmut, Ian FuelscherIan Fuelscher, J WilliamsNeurocomputational models of reaching indicate that efficient purposive correction of movement midflight (e.g., online control) depends on one's ability to generate and monitor an accurate internal (neural) movement representation. In the first study to test this empirically, the authors investigated the relationship between healthy young adults’ implicit motor imagery performance and their capacity to correct their reaching trajectory. As expected, after controlling for general reaching speed, hierarchical regression demonstrated that imagery ability was a significant predictor of hand correction speed; that is, faster and more accurate imagery performance associated with faster corrections to reaching following target displacement at movement onset. They argue that these findings provide preliminary support for the view that a link exists between an individual's ability to represent movement mentally and correct movement online efficiently.
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Journal of motor behaviorVolume
45Issue
3Pagination
259 - 269Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Oxon, UKPublisher DOI
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0022-2895eISSN
1940-1027Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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Motor imageryDouble-step reachingHand rotationPredictive modelingOnline controlScience & TechnologySocial SciencesLife Sciences & BiomedicineNeurosciencesPsychologyPsychology, ExperimentalSport SciencesNeurosciences & NeurologyDEVELOPMENTAL-COORDINATION-DISORDERPOSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEXOBJECT POSITIONMENTAL ROTATIONCORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITYSIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATIONMOVEMENT REPRESENTATIONSPREHENSION MOVEMENTSPARKINSONS-DISEASEPRAXIS IMAGERY
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