Studia Kinanthropologica

Studia Kinanthropologica 2018, 19(3):159-163

Effect of ideomotor intervention in the course of sensomotor learning

D. Benešová^*, P. Hranáč, K. Švátora

Centrum tělesné a sportovní výchovy Fakulty pedagogické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni

The goal of our research is to assess the effect of ideomotor intervention in sensomotor learning of a movement task, which is focused on the ability of balancing with a subject. The research sample consisted of 60 persons at the age of 21-35 years (n = 60). The experimental group consisted of 30 probands (n_E = 30), and the control group had 30 probands too (n_K = 30). The tests were carried out in the form of pre-test and post-test, while the experimental group underwent a short relaxation and ideomotor intervention between the pre-test and post-test. To evaluate the differences between the control and experimental group, we compared the arithmetic averages of the t-test for independent files, and a correlation diagram was used to make a graphical comparison of changes in performance achieved in the pre-test and post-test. Substantive significance was verified by the Cohen's d coefficient. The results show that ideomotor intervention had an effect on sensomotor performance in the post-test. In the experimental group, the difference in the pre-test and post-test (improvement) performance is statistically and substantively higher. We believe that ideomotor intervention had a positive effect on sensomotor learning.

Keywords: ideomotor; imagination; sensorimotor learning

Published: September 30, 2018  Show citation