ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Dual-task interference as a function of varying motor and cognitive demands.
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- The Contribution of Paresis, Age, and the Effect of Short Training on Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Interference After Stroke: A Pilot Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dual-task effects of walking-speed on inhibitory control and decision-making under risk.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Central imaging based on near-infrared functional imaging technology can be useful to plan management in patients with chronic lateral ankle instability.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Dual-task performance and balance in patients with severe COPD: a cross-sectional study.Therapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
Multitasking is a critical feature of our daily lives. Using a dual-task paradigm, this experiment explored adults' abilities to simultaneously engage in everyday motor and cognitive activities, counting while walking, under conditions varying the difficulty of each of these tasks. Motor difficulty was manipulated by having participants walk forward versus backward, and cognitive difficulty was manipulated by having participants count forward versus backward, employing either a serial 2 s or serial 3 s task. All of these manipulations were performed in single-task conditions (walk only, count only) and dual-task conditions (walk and count simultaneously). Both motor performance variables (cycle time, stride length, walking velocity) and cognitive variables (counting fluency, counting accuracy) were assessed in these conditions. Analyses of single-task conditions revealed that both motor and cognitive manipulations predictably influenced performance. Analyses of dual-task performance revealed influences of motor and cognitive factors on both motor and cognitive performance. Most centrally, dual-task costs (normalized difference between single- and dual-task conditions) for motor variables revealed that such costs occurred primarily for temporal or spatiotemporal gait parameters (cycle time, walking velocity) and were driven by cognitive manipulations. Dual-task cost analyses for cognitive measures revealed negative dual-task costs, or dual-task benefits, for cognitive performance. Finally, the effects of dual-task manipulations were correlated for motor and cognitive measures, indicating dual-task performance as a significant individual difference variable. These findings are discussed with reference to theories of attentional allocation, as well as the possible role of auditory-motor entrainment in dual-task conditions.
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