Data analysis
One-way ANOVA was used to separately analyzed differences between groups (Active, Sedentary) in the forward and the backward imagery task. To investigate whether imagination perspectives (internal, external, kinesthetic) affect the performance of active and sedentary participants differently, we performed a generalized linear model (GLM) (Dunn & Smyth, All analyses and graph illustrations were conducted through JASP software 0.17.2.1.Due to our relatively small sample size, we conducted a post-hoc power analysis, which revealed a power level (1- β) of 0.34.