Performance improvements from imagery: Evidence that internal visual imagery is superior to external visual imagery for slalom performance

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Callow, Nichola ^a   Roberts, Ross ^a   Hardy, Lew ^a   Jiang, Dan ^a   Edwards, Martin Gareth ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Imagery ability; Kinesthetic imagery; Mental practice; Speed accuracy tradeoff; VMIQ 2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL VISUAL IMAGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERNAL VISUAL IMAGERY; KINESTHETIC IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84933671215     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00697     Document Type: Article

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