Task-involvement and ego-involvement goals during actual and imagined movements: Their effects on cognitions and vegetative responses

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-167

  Thill, Edgar E ^a,b   Bryche, Didier ^a   Poumarat, Georges ^a   Rigoulet, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UFR de Psychologie   (France)

Author keywords

goal; mental rehearsal; vegetative response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031022464     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)80985-0     Document Type: Article

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