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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"mental practice"”.
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The feasibility of a mental practice protocol for severe upper extremity hemiparesis
Objective: To increase the efficacy of mental practice (MP) with severe upper extremity (UE) hemiparesis following a stroke and examine the feasibility of following a MP protocol in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting. Design: single-group, pretest-posttest Setting: acute inpatient …
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The Contribution of Planning-related Motor Processes to Mental Practice and Imitation Learning
It is still controversial whether mental practice – the internal rehearsal of movements to improve later performance – relies on processes engaged during physical motor performance and, if so, which processes these are. This series of experiments investigates this question. It utilizes a framework …
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Effects of Mental Practice on the Acquisition of Critical Psychomotor Skills in Recruit Police Officers
Mental practice has been utilized in a variety of experiments and in a number of specific activities. Results obtained in experiments yielded inconsistent findings leading researchers to believe efficacy can only be discerned in controlled application of techniques. No research has been conducted …
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The effect of mental practice immediately prior to performance on the acquisition of a motor skill
The use of mental practice to facilitate the acquisition of a motor skill was investigated. A transfer design was used to determine if the facilitation of mirror tracing performance could be attributed to learning. Following two trials on the mirror trace subjects performed either mental practice, …
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The Effects of Practice Procedure and Task Difficulty on Tonal Pattern Accuracy.
… proportions of time spent on physical and mental practice, in the context of a music performance of a tonal pattern over harmonic progressions of two difficulty levels. Using a sampling without replacement procedure, sixty undergraduate students were assigned to four practice groups …
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Effects of mental and physical practice on 6th grade beginning band instrumentalists' performance accuracy
… this study was to examine the effects of three practice conditions on beginning band instrumentalists’ performance of a short musical selection. Fifty- nine sixth grade beginning band students were randomly assigned to either a physical practice, mental practice, or no practice (control) …
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MURPHY: A neurally-inspired connectionist approach to learning and performance in vision-based robot motion planning
… his arm through a combination of physical and ""mental"" practice, and then uses simple heuristic search with mental images of his arm to solve visually-guided reaching problems in the presence of obstacles whose traditional algorithmic solutions are extremely complex. MURPHY differs from …
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Tax avoidance and tax reduction within the framework of the South African income tax legislation, with special reference to the effect on the fiscus and to current anomalies and inequities
… in the light of the court decisions, the depart- mental practice and my own interpretations; secondly, to consider and discuss the extent to which taxpayers can arrange their affairs within the letter of the law in order to avoid or reduce tax and the prejudicial effect on the public revenue, and …
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Effects of Practice Type and Task Difficulty on Visuospatial Performance
… skills for every day survival is highly evident. Practice is a mechanism by which visuospatial skills can be enhanced. The current study examined how general practice, different types of practice, and levels of task difficulty affect visuospatial performance. Seventy-eight undergraduate students …