ArticleFrontiers in psychology2013
Corticomotor responses to attentionally demanding motor performance: a mini-review.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Task-dependent changes in the cortical control of postural dual tasks: effects of secondary cognitive and motor tasks.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- How aging impacts cortical dynamics and gait during dual-task turning revealed by fNIRS.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Effects of divided attention on movement-related cortical potential in community-dwelling elderly adults: A preliminary study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Oscillations in neural drive and age-related reductions in force steadiness with a cognitive challenge.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2019Article
- Reduced motor cortex inhibition and a 'cognitive-first' prioritisation strategy for older adults during dual-tasking.Experimental gerontology · 2018Article
- Neural Substrates of Cognitive Motor Interference During Walking; Peripheral and Central Mechanisms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Force Steadiness During a Cognitively Challenging Motor Task Is Predicted by Executive Function in Older Adults.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Age and sex differences in steadiness of elbow flexor muscles with imposed cognitive demand.European journal of applied physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Increased attentional demand has been shown to reduce motor performance, leading to increases in accidents, particularly in elderly populations. While these deficits have been well documented behaviorally, their cortical correlates are less well known. Increased attention has been shown to affect activity in prefrontal regions of the cortex. However there have been varying results within past research investigating corticomotor regions, mediating motor performance. This mini-review initially discusses past behavioral research, before moving to studies investigating corticomotor areas in response to changes in attention. Recent dual task studies have revealed a possible decline in the ability of older, but not younger, adults to activate inhibitory processes within the motor cortex, which may be correlated with poor motor performance, and thus accidents. A reduction in cortical inhibition may be caused by neurodegeneration within prefrontal regions of the cortex with age, rendering older adults less able to allocate attention to corticomotor regions.
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