ArticleExperimental brain research2025
Influence of cognitive demand and auditory noise on postural dynamics.
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Abstract
The control of human balance involves an interaction between the human motor, cognitive, and sensory systems. The dynamics of this interaction are yet to be fully understood, however, work has shown the performance of cognitive tasks to have a hampering effect on motor performance, while additive sensory noise to have a beneficial effect. The current study aims to examine whether postural control will be impacted by a concurrent working memory task, and similarly, if additive noise can counteract the expected negative influence of the added cognitive demand. Postural sway of healthy young adults was collected during the performance of a modified N-back task with varying difficulty, in the presence and absence of auditory noise. Our results show a reduction in postural stability scaled to the difficulty of the cognitive task, but this effect is less prominent in the presence of additive noise. Additionally, by separating postural sway into different frequency bands, typically used to assess the exploratory vs feedback-driven stabilizing dynamics of sway, we found a differential effect between the cognitive task and additive noise, thus demonstrating that both frequency regimes of postural sway are sensitive to high cognitive load and increased sensory information.
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