Munzert Jörn, Krüger Britta
Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology and Sport Science, Institute of Sport Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2018 Oct 9;9:1869. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01869. eCollection 2018.
Motor imagery has become a key issue in cognitive neuroscience and particularly in fMRI research. However, peripheral physiological effects of motor imagery were already being studied a century ago with some research hypotheses even tracing back to Washburn (1916). This review focuses on research by Edmund Jacobson in the early 1930s. Jacobsen demonstrated that peripheral physiological effects rely on task-specific instructions: Bending the right arm elicits muscular responses in the right biceps, but not in the muscles of other limbs. This review discusses how Jacobsen examined this issue in a series of studies. This scientific spadework is worth recalling here because of its methodological innovations and its forward-looking discussion that even today, continues to be relevant for prospective research on this topic.
运动想象已成为认知神经科学尤其是功能磁共振成像(fMRI)研究中的一个关键问题。然而,早在一个世纪前就有人开始研究运动想象的外周生理效应,甚至有些研究假设可以追溯到沃什伯恩(1916年)。本综述聚焦于20世纪30年代初埃德蒙·雅各布森的研究。雅各布森证明,外周生理效应依赖于特定任务的指令:弯曲右臂会引发右肱二头肌的肌肉反应,但不会引发其他肢体肌肉的反应。本综述讨论了雅各布森在一系列研究中是如何研究这个问题的。这项科学基础工作值得在此回顾,因为它的方法创新以及前瞻性的讨论,即使在今天,对于该主题的前瞻性研究仍然具有相关性。