The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
What mental rehearsal appears to do is engage the activity of those upper motor neurons that we talked about way back at the beginning of the episode... Mental rehearsal, closing one's eyes typically and thinking about a particular sequence of movement and visualizing it in one's "mind's eye" creates activation of the upper motor neurons that's very similar if not the same as the actual movement.
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mental rehearsal closing one's eyes typically and thinking about a particular sequence of movement and visualizing it in one's quote unquote mind Mind's Eye creates activation of the upper motor neurons that's very similar if not the same as the actual movement