Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research.

By M. Woollacott, A. Shumway-cook. Gait & Posture, 2002

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Subfields: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Dual tasking, gait rhythmicity, and Parkinson's disease: Which aspects of gait are attention demanding? (2005, background): “…consume some degree of attentional resources in healthy older adults, as suggested by other studies (Maylor & Wing, 1996; Lindenberger et al., 2000; Woollacott & Shumway-Cook, 2002) and the decrease in gait speed observed in the present study, healthy subjects can apparently attend to secondary…”
Dual‐tasking effects on gait variability: The role of aging, falls, and executive function (2006, background): “The present study was therefore designed to examine three related hypotheses: (1) the dual-tasking effect on gait variability is larger in healthy older adults than it is in healthy young adults; (2) this effect is larger in idiopathic elderly fallers than it is in healthy older adults; and (3) the ”
About the structure of posturography: Sampling duration, parametrization, focus of attention (part II) (2012, background): “It is widely accepted that a certain amount of attention is required to maintain a stable upright posture [4].”
Gait and Cognition: A Complementary Approach to Understanding Brain Function and the Risk of Falling (2012, background): “During the dual task, the individual performs an attention-demanding task while walking to assess any modifications from the reference single-task condition in the cognitive or walking subtasks.(4) The underlying hypothesis is that two simultaneously performed tasks interfere with each other and com”
Role of the prefrontal cortex in human balance control (2008, positive): “Although animal studies have emphasized the importance of subcortical structures in balance control, cortical regulation is also important for maintaining human bipedal posture (Woollacott and Shumway-Cook, 2002; Nielsen, 2003).”
Postural Stabilization of Visually Guided Eye Movements (2006, background): “Effects of this kind have often been interpreted in terms of cognitive processes such as the allocation of central processing resources (for a review, see Woollacott & Shumway-Cook, 2002).”