Attentional load of walking in children aged 7–12 and in adults

Autor: G. Barbieri, Isabelle Olivier, Vincent Nougier, Estelle Palluel, Arthur de Freitas Brandão, Guillaume Chauvel
Přispěvatelé: Santé, Plasticité, Motricité (TIMC-IMAG-SPM), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité - Informatique, Mathématiques et Applications, Grenoble - UMR 5525 (TIMC-IMAG), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Adult
Male
Dual-task paradigm
medicine.medical_specialty
MESH: Acoustic Stimulation
Biophysics
Walking
MESH: Psychomotor Performance
Development
Audiology
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Age groups
MESH: Child
Task Performance and Analysis
medicine
Humans
MESH: Walking
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Active listening
Child
MESH: Attention
MESH: Humans
05 social sciences
Rehabilitation
[SDV.NEU.SC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences
MESH: Adult
MESH: Task Performance and Analysis
Cognition
Gait
MESH: Male
MESH: Photic Stimulation
Acoustic Stimulation
Duration (music)
Female
Psychology
Cadence
MESH: Female
human activities
Photic Stimulation
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Gait and Posture
Gait and Posture, Elsevier, 2017, 56, pp.95-99. ⟨10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.04.034⟩
ISSN: 0966-6362
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.04.034
Popis: International audience; The amount of attentional resources necessary to walk in children, and how they evolve during childhood remains unclear. This study examined children's gait parameters in different dual-task conditions. 53 children, divided into two age groups (7-9 and 10-12 years old), and 18 adults walked on a mat in three different cognitive conditions: watching a video (video condition), listening its soundtrack (audio condition), and without any additional task (control condition). Questions were asked at the end of the video and audio conditions to make sure that participants were paying attention to the stimuli. A GAITRite® system was used for recording the gait data. Results showed an increase of velocity and step duration, and a decrease of cadence and percentage of double limb support duration from 7 years of age to adulthood during dual-task walking compared with single-task walking. This improvement seemed to be linear from 7 years to adults' age. The interference of dual-task on gait was larger for the video than for the auditory task and decreased with age. We concluded that walking requires a significant amount of attentional resources in children and that children rely more than adults on visual processes for walking.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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