Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics Research Group, Center of Excellence "Cognitive Interaction Technology", Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University Bielefeld, Germany.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 May 22;8:328. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00328. eCollection 2014.
Research in sports, dance and rehabilitation has shown that basic action concepts (BACs) are fundamental building blocks of mental action representations. BACs are based on chunked body postures related to common functions for realizing action goals. In this paper, we outline issues in research methodology and an experimental method, the structural dimensional analysis of mental representation (SDA-M), to assess action-relevant representational structures that reflect the organization of BACs. The SDA-M reveals a strong relationship between cognitive representation and performance if complex actions are performed. We show how the SDA-M can improve motor imagery training and how it contributes to our understanding of coaching processes. The SDA-M capitalizes on the objective measurement of individual mental movement representations before training and the integration of these results into the motor imagery training. Such motor imagery training based on mental representations (MTMR) has been applied successfully in professional sports such as golf, volleyball, gymnastics, windsurfing, and recently in the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke.
运动、舞蹈和康复领域的研究表明，基本动作概念（BAC）是心理动作表象的基本构建块。BAC 基于与实现动作目标相关的常见功能相关的块状身体姿势。在本文中，我们概述了研究方法和实验方法——心理表象的结构维度分析（SDA-M）中的问题，以评估反映 BAC 组织的与动作相关的表象结构。如果执行复杂的动作，SDA-M 会揭示认知表现和表现之间的强烈关系。我们展示了 SDA-M 如何提高运动意象训练的效果，以及它如何帮助我们理解教练过程。SDA-M 利用在训练前对个体心理运动表象的客观测量，并将这些结果整合到运动意象训练中。这种基于心理表象的运动意象训练（MTMR）已成功应用于高尔夫、排球、体操、帆板运动等专业运动领域，最近也应用于中风患者的康复领域。
