Observation of biological vs non-biological of squat vertical jump to improve the motor performance of a similar task

Abstract

It is claimed that humans are particularly sensitive to biological motion. A biological motion is a pattern and class of articulated motion specific to animals and humans. The ability to perceive biological motion pattern over non-biological ones has been discussed in the research literature. Johansson et al. in 1973 has confirmed that human can perceive biological motion pattern from movements of little dots. Here, we investigate the difference between observing biological and non-biological task of squat vertical jump (SVJ). Action Observation has been proved also to improve motor performance of SVJ in several previous studies. Results of this study didn’t show any difference in observing both movements upon the performance of SVJ. We concluded that a kinogram may be internally represented from previous daily life experiences or scenes and therefore improvement of SVJ was confirmed with AO, but for both stimuli. Further research should stress the importance of the cognitive stimuli et its meaning for the observers.