The impact of thermal and auditory unpleasant stimulus on explicit motor imagery in healthy individuals: An experimental study.

ABSTRACT: Motor imagery is the ability to mentally simulate a motor task without actually performing it. Furthermore, pain is an unpleasant sensory experience that involves different dimensions - sensory-discriminative, motivational-affective, and cognitive-evaluative - that are known to interfere with motor imagery. However, it remains unclear which specific pain dimension most significantly impairs motor imagery vividness. This study aims to compare the effects of unpleasant auditory (primarily affective and cognitive) and thermal (primarily sensory) stimuli, which can be assimilated to pain, on discrete and continuous explicit motor imagery sessions. Eighteen healthy participants were exposed to these unpleasant stimuli in addition to a control condition. Participants rated the vividness of their

SUBMITTER: Cohen-Aknine G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453216 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature