Motor imagery ability in baseball players with throwing yips
Toshiyuki Aoyama, Kazumichi Ae, Hiroto Soma, Kazuhiro Miyata, Kazuhiro Kajita, Takashi Kawamura · 2023
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Description
Toshiyuki Aoyama and co-authors test whether the yips that wreck a pitcher's throw also dim his mental rehearsal of it. Their 2023 study recruited 114 college baseball players in three groups: thirty-three with throwing yips, twenty-six recovered, and fifty-five who never had them. The yips, a sudden loss of a grooved skill, are a torment in precision sports.
Players completed a standard questionnaire on the vividness of imagined movement, plus questions targeting the throwing motion itself, in both its good and troubled forms. Comparing the groups separates a general imagery weakness from one tied to the afflicted action. Such distinctions shape how sports psychologists treat the condition.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Toshiyuki Aoyama, Kazumichi Ae, Hiroto Soma, Kazuhiro Miyata, Kazuhiro Kajita, Takashi Kawamura |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |