Mao Xiaoling, Huang Shaoxu, Ouyang Mingkun, Xie Yangqiu, Tan Xinhua
Education Center for Mental Health, Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, China.
School of Education Science, Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 12;13:899724. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.899724. eCollection 2022.
Evidence has shown that athletes with high motor skill proficiency possess higher motor imagery ability than those with low motor skill proficiency. However, less is known whether this superiority in motor imagery ability emerges over amateur athletes. To address the issue, the present study aimed to investigate the individual differences in motor imagery ability between amateur dancers and non-dancers. Forty participants completed a novel dance movement reproduction task and measures of the vividness of visual imagery questionnaire (VVIQ) and the vividness of motor imagery questionnaire (VMIQ). The results showed that, relative to non-dancers, amateur dancers had higher ability of motor imagery to reproduce the lower-limb and upper-limb dance movements during the dance movement reproduction task. Besides, amateur dancers displayed higher abilities of the visual motor imagery and the kinesthetic imagery, but comparable visual imagery ability as the non-dancers. These findings suggest that the mental representation of motors but not the visual is affected by the motor skill levels, due to the motor imagery practice in sports amateurs.
有证据表明，运动技能熟练程度高的运动员比运动技能熟练程度低的运动员具有更高的运动想象能力。然而，对于这种运动想象能力的优势是否在业余运动员中也存在，人们了解得较少。为了解决这个问题，本研究旨在调查业余舞者和非舞者在运动想象能力上的个体差异。40名参与者完成了一项新颖的舞蹈动作再现任务，以及视觉意象生动性问卷（VVIQ）和运动意象生动性问卷（VMIQ）的测量。结果表明，相对于非舞者，业余舞者在舞蹈动作再现任务中具有更高的运动想象能力来再现下肢和上肢舞蹈动作。此外，业余舞者表现出更高的视觉运动意象和动觉意象能力，但视觉意象能力与非舞者相当。这些发现表明，由于体育业余爱好者的运动想象练习，运动的心理表征而非视觉表征受到运动技能水平的影响。
