Exploring the distinction between visual imagery and kinaesthetic imagery, and why people who cannot picture movements in their mind can still benefit from motor imagery practice.
Aphantasia — the inability to voluntarily create mental images — is often assumed to rule out motor imagery. In practice, the picture is more nuanced. Motor imagery draws heavily on kinaesthetic representation: the felt sense of a movement rather than a visual picture of it.
This distinction matters for practitioners. Screening for imagery ability should assess both visual and kinaesthetic modalities, and interventions can be adapted to lean on whichever modality a person finds most accessible.
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