ArticleExperimental brain research2014
Postural adjustment errors during lateral step initiation in older and younger adults.
Article in Experimental brain research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The stop signal stepping task: how action cancellation commands disrupt step initiation in young and healthy older adults.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Keeping in step with the young: Chronometric and kinematic data show intact procedural locomotor sequence learning in older adults.PloS one · 2022Article
- Effects of ageing on responses to stepping-target displacements during walking.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- A new paradigm to study the influence of attentional load on cortical activity for motor preparation of step initiation.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Online adjustments of leg movements in healthy young and old.Experimental brain research · 2017Review
- Adaptation of sensorimotor coupling in postural control is impaired by sleep deprivation.PloS one · 2015Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum to: postural adjustment errors during lateral step initiation in older and younger adults.2015 · Alghwiri, Alia A [added]
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Abstract
The purpose was to examine age differences and varying levels of step response inhibition on the performance of a voluntary lateral step initiation task. Seventy older adults (70-94 years) and twenty younger adults (21-58 years) performed visually cued step initiation conditions based on direction and spatial location of arrows, ranging from a simple choice reaction time task to a perceptual inhibition task that included incongruous cues about which direction to step (e.g., a left pointing arrow appearing on the right side of a monitor). Evidence of postural adjustment errors and step latencies were recorded from vertical ground reaction forces exerted by the stepping leg. Compared with younger adults, older adults demonstrated greater variability in step behavior, generated more postural adjustment errors during conditions requiring inhibition, and had greater step initiation latencies that increased more than younger adults as the inhibition requirements of the condition became greater. Step task performance was related to clinical balance test performance more than executive function task performance.
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