Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Mental Attention: Improving Motor Imagery by Adding Focus Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/w9505083n
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- Research has delineated the values of motor imagery for physical tasks; subjects consistently outperform control groups when mentally rehearsing a task and transferring it to a physical medium. Additionally, an external focus of attention has been shown to increase accuracy and performance while performing a physical task as compared to an internal focus. There had been no previous research addressing a focus of attention while mentally rehearsing a task. Therefore, the objective of this study was to see if varying foci of attention during practice of a dart-throwing task could enhance mental rehearsal. Consistency was significantly depressed for mental internal and control conditions in the first test block.
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- 2011-03-15
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- 2019-12-02
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