Development of the Correspondence between Real and Imagined Fine and Gross Motor Actions

Autor/inn/en	Sachet, Alison B.; Frey, Scott H.; Jacobs, Stéphane; Taylor, Marjorie
Titel	Development of the Correspondence between Real and Imagined Fine and Gross Motor Actions
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 17 (2016) 1, S.162-179 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2014.963585
Schlagwörter	Psychomotor Skills; Motor Reactions; Motor Development; Human Body; Children; Task Analysis; Imagination; Physical Activities; Proximity; Imagery; Correlation; Cognitive Processes; Handedness; Edinburgh Handedness Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Motorische Entwicklung; Menschlicher Körper; Child; Kind; Kinder; Aufgabenanalyse; Lebensnähe; Metaphorik; Korrelation; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Linkshändigkeit
Abstract	The development of the correspondence between real and imagined motor actions was investigated in 2 experiments. Experiment 1 evaluated whether children imagine body position judgments of fine motor actions in the same way as they perform them. Thirty-two 8-year-old children completed a task in which an object was presented in different orientations, and children were asked to indicate the position of their hand as they grasped and imagined grasping the object. Children's hand position was almost identical for the imagined- and real-grasping trials. Experiment 2 replicated this result with 8-year-olds as well as 6-year-olds and also assessed the development of the correspondence of the chronometry of real and imagined gross motor actions. Sixteen 6-year-old children and seventeen 8-year-old children participated in the fine motor grasping task from Experiment 1 and a gross motor task that measured the time it took for children to walk and imagine walking different distances. Six-year-olds showed more of a difference between real and imagined walking than did 8-year-olds. However, there were strong correlations between real and imagined grasping and walking for both 6- and 8-year-old children, suggesting that by at least 6 years of age, motor imagery and real action may involve common internal representations and that motor imagery is important for motor control and planning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01