Trial reportPloS one2014
Persistent fluctuations in stride intervals under fractal auditory stimulation.
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- Assessing the Temporal Organization of Walking Variability: A Systematic Review and Consensus Guidelines on Detrended Fluctuation Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Pooled it
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- Inducing asymmetric gait in healthy walkers: a review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Review
- Effects of metronome walking on long-term attractor divergence and correlation structure of gait: a validation study in older people.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Agreement between Wearable Sensors and Force Plates for the Analysis of Stride Time Variability.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Biomechanical Assessment Methods Used in Chronic Stroke: A Scoping Review of Non-Linear Approaches.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Stride-to-stride fluctuations and temporal patterns of muscle activity exhibit similar responses during walking to variable visual cues.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- Muscle activity variability patterns and stride to stride fluctuations of older adults are positively correlated during walking.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The fractal brain: scale-invariance in structure and dynamics.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Review
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- Stride-to-stride time intervals are independently affected by the temporal pattern and probability distribution of visual cues.Neuroscience letters · 2023Article
- The temporal pattern and the probability distribution of visual cueing can alter the structure of stride-to-stride variability.Neuroscience letters · 2021Observational
- Gait complexity is acutely restored in older adults when walking to a fractal-like visual stimulus.Human movement science · 2020Article
- Significance of trends in gait dynamics.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Fractal auditory stimulation has greater benefit for people with Parkinson's disease showing more random gait pattern.Gait & posture · 2020Article
- Influence of Autocorrelated Rhythmic Auditory Stimulations on Parkinson's Disease Gait Variability: Comparison With Other Auditory Rhythm Variabilities and Perspectives.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Auditory and Visual External Cues Have Different Effects on Spatial but Similar Effects on Temporal Measures of Gait Variability.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Stride sequences of healthy gait are characterized by persistent long-range correlations, which become anti-persistent in the presence of an isochronous metronome. The latter phenomenon is of particular interest because auditory cueing is generally considered to reduce stride variability and may hence be beneficial for stabilizing gait. Complex systems tend to match their correlation structure when synchronizing. In gait training, can one capitalize on this tendency by using a fractal metronome rather than an isochronous one? We examined whether auditory cues with fractal variations in inter-beat intervals yield similar fractal inter-stride interval variability as isochronous auditory cueing in two complementary experiments. In Experiment 1, participants walked on a treadmill while being paced by either an isochronous or a fractal metronome with different variation strengths between beats in order to test whether participants managed to synchronize with a fractal metronome and to determine the necessary amount of variability for participants to switch from anti-persistent to persistent inter-stride intervals. Participants did synchronize with the metronome despite its fractal randomness. The corresponding coefficient of variation of inter-beat intervals was fixed in Experiment 2, in which participants walked on a treadmill while being paced by non-isochronous metronomes with different scaling exponents. As expected, inter-stride intervals showed persistent correlations similar to self-paced walking only when cueing contained persistent correlations. Our results open up a new window to optimize rhythmic auditory cueing for gait stabilization by integrating fractal fluctuations in the inter-beat intervals.
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