Online corrections can occur within movement imagery: An investigation of the motor-cognitive model

Owen, Robin and Wakefield, Caroline and Roberts, James W. (2024) Online corrections can occur within movement imagery: An investigation of the motor-cognitive model. Human Movement Science, 95. ISSN 0167-9457

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Abstract

The motor-cognitive model proposes that movement imagery additionally requires conscious monitoring owing to an absence of veridical online sensory feedback. Therefore, it is predicted that there would be a comparatively limited ability for individuals to update or correct movement imagery as they could within execution. To investigate, participants executed and imagined target-directed aiming movements featuring either an unexpected target perturbation (Exp. 1) or removal of visual sensory feedback (Exp. 2). The results of both experiments indicated that the time-course of executed and imagined movements was equally influenced by each of these online visual manipulations. Thus, contrary to some of the tenets of the motor-cognitive model, movement imagery holds the capacity to interpolate online corrections despite the absence of veridical sensory feedback. The further theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This version was accepted for publication in Human Movement Science. The final, published version is available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167945724000459
Keywords:	aiming; visual feedback; equivalence; conscious monitoring
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Health and Sport Sciences
Depositing User:	Caroline Wakefield
Date Deposited:	08 May 2024 10:33
Last Modified:	08 May 2024 10:33
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4215

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