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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Sports science

Background:

  • Mental preparation influences performance and physiological states.
  • Previous interpretations focused on global processes like attention or alertness.
  • An integrative framework is needed to understand preparation's psychophysiology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review psychophysiological and performance studies on mental preparation.
  • To propose a framework for understanding the psychophysiology of preparation.
  • To link preparatory processes to information processing theories.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing psychophysiological and performance investigations.
  • Conceptual analysis integrating information processing and action regulation theories.
  • Discussion of how psychophysiological measures can test theoretical concepts.

Main Results:

  • Existing psychophysiological findings are consistent with a central regulation framework.
  • Supervisory attention is proposed as crucial for maintaining action unity during concurrent information processing.
  • This framework integrates preparation's psychophysiology with information processing views.

Conclusions:

  • Central regulation of action provides an integrative framework for mental preparation.
  • Supervisory attention plays a key role in preparatory processing.
  • Psychophysiological measures can validate theories of central action regulation.