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ArticleExperimental brain research2018

Effect of a cognitive task on online adjustments when avoiding stepping on an obstacle and stepping on a target during walking in young adults.

Andréia Abud da Silva Costa, Luciana Oliveira Dos Santos, Renato Moraes

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Article in Experimental brain research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andréia Abud da Silva CostaRibeirão Preto Medical School, Graduate Program in Rehabilitation and Functional Performance, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-211X
Luciana Oliveira Dos SantosRibeirão Preto Medical School, Graduate Program in Rehabilitation and Functional Performance, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3306-214X
Renato MoraesBiomechanics and Motor Control Laboratory, School of Physical Education and Sport of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-907, Brazil. renatomoraes@usp.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8029-8334
Universidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade de Ribeirão Preto · BR

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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2016/02202-8
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During locomotion, we respond to environmental and task changes by adjusting steps length and width. Different protocols involving stepping on targets and obstacle avoidance suggest the involvement of cortical and subcortical pathways in these online adjustments. The addition of a concomitant cognitive task (CT) can affect these online corrections depending on the neural pathway used. Thereby, we investigated the online adjustment using a target stepping task and a planar obstacle avoidance task in young adults and analyzed the effect of a CT on these adjustments. Twenty young adults executed two blocks of trials of walking performing the target task (TT) and obstacle avoidance task (OAT), with and without a concomitant CT. In the TT, participants stepped on a target projected on the ground, whereas in the OAT they avoided stepping on an obstacle projected on the ground. The target/obstacle could change its original position in four directions at contralateral foot contact on the ground. Overall, the CT did not affect the latency to start the adjustments due to target/obstacle change. The main changes were restricted to the frontal plane adjustments. The latency for the medial and lateral choices in the OAT was ~ 200 ms, whereas for the TT was ~ 150 ms. These results suggest the involvement of a slow cortical pathway in the OAT in the frontal plane modifications. In turn, the TT may be controlled by one of two fast adjustment neural pathways.

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AdultBiomechanical PhenomenaExecutive FunctionFemaleHumansMalePsychomotor PerformanceWalkingYoung AdultAdaptive locomotionDigit-monitoring taskLatencyObstacleTarget

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