Motor imagery and music: A function of arousal?

Castellar, Fernando; Duarte-Mendes, Pedro

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Motor imagery and music: A function of arousal?

2019Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Castellar, Fernando
dc.contributor.author	Duarte-Mendes, Pedro
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-18T15:31:08Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-18T15:31:08Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	The study of imagery has been a central pillar in the Sports Psychology field, since athletes have reported the use of imagery techniques in order to mentally practice body movements and, therefore, improve the actual physical performance. Similarly, music plays a quintessential role in many sports as its influence on athletes’ motivation, concentration, confidence and anxiety levels before and during the sporting practice has been widely reported and studied. The application of imagery and music combined has been reported to yield improvement in sporting performance. As a possible explanation, certain types of music have been considered as an element that decreases arousal levels in subjects, promoting a more effective use of imagery prior to performance. However, it has also been reported that subjects had better performance at tasks that assessed mental imagery processes after arousal increase after subjects’ exposure to arousing music. Thus, this study has investigated whether two distinct musical stimuli (simple and complex music) affected arousal levels in participants, and consequently the performance in a mental imagery of body parts (henceforth: motor imagery) cognitive task, namely mental-rotation of bodily-related pictures. 30 Sports Science students completed this mental rotation of body pictures task after exposure to three different stimuli (silence, complex music and simple music). Although results showed arousal levels decrease after subjects were exposed to both complex music and silence, this decrease did not yield any effect on performance, casting doubt on the hypothesis that arousal decrease facilitates motor imagery processes.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Castellar, F. & Duarte-Mendes, P. (2019). Motor Imagery and Music: a function of Arousal? Jounal of Human Sport and Exercise, 14(4proc), S1707-S1710.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.14198/jhse.2019.14.Proc4.82	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/6928
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Journal of Human Sport and Exercise	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/97307	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Mental Imagery	pt_PT
dc.subject	Motor Imagery	pt_PT
dc.subject	Mental Rotation	pt_PT
dc.subject	Subjective Arousal	pt_PT
dc.title	Motor imagery and music: A function of arousal?	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Spain, Alicante.	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	S1710	pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue	14	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	S1707	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Journal of Human Sport and Exercise	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	4proc	pt_PT
person.familyName	Duarte-Mendes
person.givenName	Pedro
person.identifier.ciencia-id	BB19-DC8E-05C7
person.identifier.orcid	0000-0001-5055-2696
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	article	pt_PT
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