Imagix: Multimedia software for evaluating the vividness of movement-imagery

This article presents a new software, Imagix, designed for the evaluation o f the vividness of movement-imagery. This multimedia test is comprised of 1 8 movements in six different psychomotor categories whose vividness of imag ery is to he appraised. Imagix has the advantage of offering an evaluation of the lividness of imagery in a normative way. The participant chooses amo ng four films displaying a vividness gradient, which includes contrast and luminosity. The participant is first asked to visualize a movement verbally suggested. The participant is then asked to evaluate the vividness of this mental image by choosing on a computer screen the movie that best correspo nds to the vividness of the movement-imagery. The first Versions of this fr eeware (in English and French) are currently being Validated.