Barabasz A, Barabasz M, Bauman J
Attentional Processes Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-2131.
Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Jun;76(3 Pt 1):867-73. doi: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.3.867.
This study controlled for relaxation and guided imagery confounds noted in much previous research on enhancement of human performance using the restricted environmental stimulation technique (REST). Dry flotation REST was used where subjects lay ("floated") on a salt-water-filled bladder in a sound-attenuated, light-free chamber. 9 men and 3 women in a rifle marksmanship training course, exposed to dry-flotation REST, showed significantly higher rifle marksmanship scores than the university students who as matched controls were exposed to relaxation (9 men and 3 women). Further, only the former showed a significant pre- to posttest improvement in scores, which suggests REST's positive effects on marksmanship go beyond the induction of relaxation by hypnosis. The results support hypotheses summarized in 1982 by Barabasz regarding potentiation by REST of internally generated imagery and subsequent improvement observed in a nonREST posttest environment.
本研究控制了先前许多关于使用限制环境刺激技术（REST）提高人类表现的研究中所指出的放松和引导式意象混淆因素。采用干式漂浮REST，让受试者躺在隔音、无光的房间里装满盐水的气囊上（“漂浮”）。在步枪射击训练课程中，9名男性和3名女性接受了干式漂浮REST，其步枪射击成绩显著高于作为匹配对照组接受放松训练的大学生（9名男性和3名女性）。此外，只有前者在测试前到测试后的成绩有显著提高，这表明REST对射击技术的积极影响不仅仅是通过催眠诱导放松。结果支持了巴拉巴斯在1982年总结的关于REST增强内部产生的意象以及随后在非REST后测环境中观察到的改善的假设。
