Effects of instructed focus and task difficulty on concurrent walking and cognitive task performance in healthy young adults

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 65-73

  Kelly, Valerie E ^a   Janke, Alexis A ^a   Shumway Cook, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task; Gait; Instructional set; Narrow base walking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 78149359812     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2429-6     Document Type: Article

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