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The Effect of Mental Practice on Motor Task Performance Accuracy

정신훈련이 운동과제 수행시 정확도에 미치는 효과

  • Lee, Kyung-Sook (Dept. of Physical Therapy, Sang Ji Oriental Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Jung, You-Jin (Dept. of Rehabilitation College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Cheon, Myung-Soon (Dept. of Rehabilitation College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Current, Marion E. (Dept. of Rehabilitation College of Health Science, Yonsei University)
  • 이경숙 ;
  • 정유진 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 재활학과) ;
  • 천명순 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 재활학과) ;
  • 구애련 (연세대학교 보건과학대학 재활학과)
  • Published : 1995.12.09
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of mental practice in increasing accuracy of performance during motor task. Forty healthy students aged 17 years were randomly assigned to two groups. The experimental group(n=20) performed mental practice; the control group(n=20) performed nothing. The task was dotting. No significant change was seen between pre and post test subtest results following mental practice sessions(p>0.05). The experimental group's accuracy improved a little but this was not valuable statistically(p>0.05). We could not prove that mental practice was effective in increasing accuracy of motor task performance.

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