ABSTRACT

There is now ample evidence that motor imagery contributes to improve motor performance and promote motor learning and recovery. During the last decades, a large number of experimental studies and imagery frameworks were designed to determine the critical key components for effective imagery interventions. The extent to which athletes often move slightly during motor imagery has spawned specific interest in imagery research from a conceptual perspective, hence challenging the traditional idea that imagery requires to remain motionless. While a wealth of research has extensively decoupled motor imagery from action, more recent imagery theories specifically considered that athletes can perform a dynamic form of imagery, by adopting a congruent body position and embodying spatial and/or temporal features of the movement without entirely performing it. Spurred by the wide use of this form of imagery by athletes and the promising related experimental research, the present paper aims at reviewing the impact and predictive positive effects of dynamic motor imagery on motor performance. Direct implications for applied work, including specific instructions that dynamic motor imagery might have during different stages of the coaching process of athletes, are further considered. A framework for the appropriate timing for delivering dynamic imagery interventions is finally proposed.

摘要

现在有充分的证据表明运动意象有助于提高运动表现并促进运动学习和恢复。在过去的几十年里，设计了大量的实验研究和图像框架来确定有效图像干预的关键组成部分。运动员在运动意象过程中经常轻微移动的程度从概念的角度引发了对意象研究的特殊兴趣，因此挑战了意象需要保持静止的传统观念。虽然大量研究已经广泛地将运动意象与动作脱钩，但最近的意象理论特别认为运动员可以通过采用一致的身体姿势并体现运动的空间和/或时间特征而不完全执行它来表现出一种动态形式的意象. 受运动员广泛使用这种形式的意象和有希望的相关实验研究的刺激，本文旨在回顾动态运动意象对运动表现的影响和预测性积极影响。进一步考虑对应用工作的直接影响，包括动态运动意象在运动员教练过程的不同阶段可能具有的具体说明。最后提出了用于提供动态图像干预的适当时机的框架。包括在运动员教练过程的不同阶段中动态运动意象可能具有的具体说明，将被进一步考虑。最后提出了用于提供动态图像干预的适当时机的框架。包括在运动员教练过程的不同阶段中动态运动意象可能具有的具体说明，将被进一步考虑。最后提出了用于提供动态图像干预的适当时机的框架。