A Study on Motor Rhythm in Motor Learning Process : Especially relating to Motor Image

Abstract

It is the aim of the present paper to make clear how both performed motor rhythm and the rhythm in motor image change in learning process, and the relations between the two kinds of motor rhythm. The results will be summarised as follows; 1) Performed motor rhythm was hardly organized in the early stage of learning because the breathing impeded the learning. As the learning progresses, two types of motor rhythm pattern appeared. 2) Performed motor rhythm and the rhythm in motor image didn't correspond in the early stage. As the learning progresses, these two kinds of motor rhythm influenced each other. As a result they gradually corresponded and synchronized. 3) It is condisered that in the early stage, performed motor rhythm is regulated by the rhythm in motor image.