Developing new strategies for the gradual integration of sensory imagery scripts into mental training: a commentary on Krüger et al. (2022)

TL;DR

This paper discusses how to improve mental training by gradually incorporating sensory imagery, enhancing the vividness of mental constructs.

Contribution

The paper introduces new guided mental training procedures that enrich subjective experience through multisensory integration.

Findings

Guided multisensory mental training can enhance the vividness of mental constructs.

Different training procedures can be established and tested to enrich subjective experience.

There is an interaction between neural representation, subjective experience, and training gain.

Abstract

Our comment emphasizes the multisensory guidance of mental training processes as pointed out by Krüger et al. 2022. Guided multisensory mental training can focus on different aspects of action performance and gradually increase the vividness of the mental construct. The authors previously described an interaction between neural representation, subjective experience, and training gain. To enrich the subjective experience of the mental process, the establishment and testing of different guided mental training procedures are discussed.