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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Motor control
  • Sports science

Background:

  • Basic Action Concepts (BACs) are foundational to mental action representations.
  • BACs involve chunked body postures for achieving action goals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address research methodology issues in understanding BACs.
  • To introduce and validate the Structural Dimensional Analysis of Mental Representation (SDA-M) method.
  • To explore the application of SDA-M in motor imagery training and coaching.

Main Methods:

  • The Structural Dimensional Analysis of Mental Representation (SDA-M) was developed to assess action-relevant representational structures.
  • SDA-M objectively measures individual mental movement representations.
  • Results are integrated into motor imagery training based on mental representations (MTMR).

Main Results:

  • SDA-M demonstrates a strong link between cognitive representation and performance in complex actions.
  • The method provides insights into the organization of BACs.
  • MTMR, informed by SDA-M, has shown success in professional sports and stroke rehabilitation.

Conclusions:

  • SDA-M is a valuable tool for analyzing mental representations of actions.
  • Integrating SDA-M into MTMR can significantly improve training effectiveness.
  • This approach enhances understanding of coaching and rehabilitation processes.