Functional neuroimaging of the interference between working memory and the control of periodic ankle movement timing.

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BACKGROUND: Limited information processing capacity in the brain necessitates task prioritisation and subsequent adaptive behavioural strategies for the dual-task coordination of locomotion with severe concurrent cognitive loading. Commonly observed strategies include prioritisation of gait at the cost of reduced performance in the cognitive task. Alternatively alterations of gait parameters such as gait velocity have been reported presumably to free processing capacity for the benefit of per...

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Authors: Johannsen, L; Li, K; Chechlacz, M; Bibi, A; Kourtzi, Z

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 2142-2153
• Publication date: 2013-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.009
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cognition; Neuropsychological Tests; Memory, Short-Term; Movement; Adult; Functional Neuroimaging; Biomechanical Phenomena; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Psychomotor Performance; Ankle; Gait; Brain; Humans; Walking; Female