Many elite basketball players use motor imagery; for example, Steve Nash, a Hall of Fame basketball player, used motor imagery to reach a career average of over 90% from the free-throw line.

So, in different types of movement activities body sense adds to the benefits and in turn enhances our desire and willingness to re-engage in the activity. The more we feel ourselves, the better ...

Start small by conjuring up just a few images and then add more images each time you practise. 2. (Tackle a weakness) You can use mental imagery training to improve areas you might be struggling with.

Motor imagery typically involves an experience as of moving a body part. Recent studies reveal close parallels between the constraints on motor imagery and those on actual motor performance. How are ...

To the point Motor learning: Imagining part of a movement can improve overall performance. Imagining a specific movement: In the study participants used an exoskeleton robot to practice arm movements ...

Only the motor imagery-neurofeedback (MI-NF) group received NF-guided MI training (10-12 runs). The NF signal was based on the right insula-dmFC functional connectivity strength.

Objective Playing a sport or a musical instrument is presumed to improve motor ability. One would therefore predict that children who play a sport or music are better at motor imagery tasks, which ...

In sports, most high-level athletes (70-90%) and elite sports coaches (94%) report using motor imagery (mental or kinesthetic imagery) to enhance sports performance. (Ridderinkhof et al. J Physiol,… ...