ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021
The Effect of a Verbal Cognitive Task on Postural Sway Does Not Persist When the Task Is Over.
Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. 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 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evaluation of postural stability under single and dual task conditions in individuals with and without intellectual disability.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Article
- Accelerometry applications and methods to assess standing balance in older adults and mobility-limited patient populations: a narrative review.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Review
- Correction: Bohlke et al. The Effect of a Verbal Cognitive Task on Postural Sway Does Not Persist When the Task Is Over.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Age and attentional focus instructions effects on postural and supra-postural tasks among older adults with mild cognitive impairments.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Article
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- Erratum issued
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Dual-task balance studies explore interference between balance and cognitive tasks. This study is a descriptive analysis of accelerometry balance metrics to determine if a verbal cognitive task influences postural control after the task ends. Fifty-two healthy older adults (75 ± 6 years old, 30 female) performed standing balance and cognitive dual-tasks. An accelerometer recorded movement from before, during, and after the task (reciting every other letter of the alphabet). Thirty-six balance metrics were calculated for each task condition. The effect of the cognitive task on postural control was determined by a generalized linear model. Twelve variables, including anterior-posterior centroid frequency, peak frequency and entropy rate, medial-later entropy rate and wavelet entropy, and bandwidth in all directions, exhibited significant differences between baseline and cognitive task periods, but not between baseline and post-task periods. These results indicate that the verbal cognitive task did alter balance, but did not bring about persistent effects after the task had ended. Traditional balance measurements, i.e., root mean square and normalized path length, notably lacked significance, highlighting the potential to use other accelerometer metrics for the early detection of balance problems. These novel insights into the temporal dynamics of dual-task balance support current dual-task paradigms to reduce fall risk in older adults.
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