TABLE 2.
Pearson correlation matrix between imagery subtest and perceptual and memory tasks—athletes.
| Athletes | Forward digit-span | Backward digit-span | Visual–spatial memory test | Memory of objects | Memory of position of objects | Mirror reproduction of spatial position |
| Visualizing letters | 0.31* | 0.11 | 0.27 | 0.16 | 0.27 | 0.08 |
| Brooks “F” test | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.38** | 0.01 | 0.27 | 0.19 |
| Clock | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.14 | –0.08 |
| Cube | –0.10 | 0.32* | –0.08 | –0.07 | –0.09 | 0.15 |
| Subtraction of parts | 0.32* | 0.22 | 0.05 | 0.32 | 0.14 | 0.37** |
| Mental exploration of a map | 0.05 | 0.07 | –0.02 | 0.34* | 0.16 | –0.10 |
| Imagined paths | 0.37** | 0.34* | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.42*** |
| Mental representation of shapes of objects | 0.25 | 0.37** | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.27 | 0.35* |
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.