Imagine to automatize: automatization of stimulus-response coupling after action imagery practice in implicit sequence learning.

ABSTRACT: Action imagery practice (AIP) describes the repetitive imagination of an action to improve subsequent action execution. Because AIP and action execution practice (AEP) draw on partly similar motor mechanisms, it was assumed that AIP may lead to motor automatization, which is observable in a reduction of dual-task costs after AEP. To investigate automatization in AIP, we compared dual-task and single-task performance in practice and random sequences in pretests and posttests. All participants practiced serial reactions to visual stimuli in ten single-task practice sessions. An AIP group imagined the reactions. An AEP group and a control practice group executed the reactions. Practice followed a sequential sequence in AIP and AEP but was random in control practice. In dual-task test conditio

SUBMITTER: Dahm SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10457413 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature