But for this to work, we need to attend away from the sensory information about our current bodily state and attend toward (increase the precision-weighting upon) the sensory information that would be expected if the action were successfully performed. This also helps explain why it is that (in the case of already skilled players) simply imagining yourself playing the shots or making the movements can actually improve subsequent performance. Even though no physical actions are involved (this is pure imaginative rehearsal) we are training ourselves to generate the mental representations that,
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