Sensory-guided motor tasks benefit from mental training based on serial prediction.

ABSTRACT: Mental strategies have been suggested to constitute a promising approach to improve motor abilities in both healthy subjects and patients. This behavioural effect has been shown to be associated with changes of neural activity in premotor areas, not only during movement execution, but also while performing motor imagery or action observation. However, how well such mental tasks are performed is often difficult to assess, especially in patients. We here used a novel mental training paradigm based on the serial prediction task (SPT) in order to activate premotor circuits in the absence of a motor task. We then tested whether this intervention improves motor-related performance such as sensorimotor transformation. Two groups of healthy young participants underwent a single-blinded five-day co

SUBMITTER: Binder E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5624496 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature