conclusions relaxation with guided imagery had a positive effect on mediating anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients. results the experimental group showed significant decreases in insomnia (-0.34 ± 0.83, p < 0.05), pain (-0.28 ± 0.58, p < 0.05), anxiety (-3.56 ± 2.94, p < 0.00), and depression (-2.38 ± 2.70, p < 0.00) between the pretest and the posttest. comparing the two groups, st...

the aim of this research was to examine the effects of pettlep-based imagery compared to more traditional imagery on learning badminton short service (backhand). for this purpose, 45 male students (age 12-14 years) were non-randomly selected and divided into three groups of 15 students each (they were beginners). the groups exercised in the following way: first group performed pettlep-based ima...

the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of different types of imagery on the skills performance of 7-10-year-old soccer players. 45 children (mean age 8.44±1.13 year) with similar imagery abilitywere selected and randomly assigned to three groups (each group 15 subjects). the training protocol was performed three sessions a week for 6 weeks. data analysis indicated a significant ...

motor imagery is the ability to imagine performing a movement without any action. the time a movement is mentally rehearsed highly correlates with the actual time of motor action. in this study, the effect of voluntary changes in imagery speed on the duration of the actual performance and learning a complex unfamiliar skill, and also the difference between the effects of real-time and fast imag...

Much has been written recently about cognitive penetration. If there are perceptual computations that are directly influenced by the information content of certain cognitive states such that the changes in the output of these computations can be accounted for in terms of the content of the penetrating cognitive states, we can talk about the cognitive penetration of perceptual processing.1 When ...

There are strong engineering motivations for wanting to place the design of fuel slingers and the understanding of their performance on an improved technical foundation. To date, however, there have been no studies conducted at a fundamental level of the basic physical processes involved in fuel slinger operation, or of the design and performance rules that are implied by these. We present resu...

As interest in anisotropic particles has increased in various research fields, methods of tracking such particles have become increasingly desirable. Here, we present a new and intuitive method to monitor the Brownian motion of a nanowire, which can construct and visualize multi-dimensional motion of a nanowire confined in an optical trap, using a dual particle tracking system. We measured the ...