Saleem Ghazala T
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 16;14:1227215. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1227215. eCollection 2023.
Motor imagery (MI) is the ability to engage in the mental representation of a task consciously or automatically without generating a voluntary movement. While the construct of MI and its various dimensions have been comprehensively studied in adults, research remains limited in children. Children as young as 5 years old can engage in MI, and this engagement is crucial to their motor development and skill acquisition. Further, the degree of skill achievement is directly linked to MI responsiveness. Clinicians and researchers often measure MI responsiveness in children to facilitate skill development and retention. However, few measures exist that can appropriately assess MI responsiveness in children. To date, a focused review examining the MI dimensions in children as well as comparing the characteristics of MI measures in children is lacking, and thus a research gap exists. This paper examines past and current research describing MI ability in children from the theoretical, developmental, and neurological lens and systematically analyzes the properties of three widely used operations - the movement imagery questionnaire in children (MIQ-C), the Florida praxis imaginary questionnaire (FPIQ-C), and the mental chronometry paradigm (MCP) - to measure MI and its dimensions in children.
运动想象（MI）是指在不产生自主运动的情况下，有意识地或自动地在脑海中呈现一项任务的能力。虽然运动想象的概念及其各个维度在成年人中已得到全面研究，但在儿童中的研究仍然有限。年仅5岁的儿童就能进行运动想象，而这种参与对他们的运动发展和技能习得至关重要。此外，技能成就的程度与运动想象反应性直接相关。临床医生和研究人员经常测量儿童的运动想象反应性，以促进技能发展和保持。然而，几乎没有能够适当评估儿童运动想象反应性的测量方法。迄今为止，缺乏一项聚焦的综述来研究儿童运动想象的维度，并比较儿童运动想象测量方法的特点，因此存在研究空白。本文从理论、发育和神经学角度审视了过去和当前描述儿童运动想象能力的研究，并系统分析了三种广泛使用的测量方法——儿童运动想象问卷（MIQ-C）、佛罗里达动作想象问卷（FPIQ-C）和心理计时范式（MCP）——测量儿童运动想象及其维度的特性。
