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

Guillaume Chauvel
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Estelle Palluel
Arthur Brandao
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Vincent Nougier
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Isabelle Olivier
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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.
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hal-01876471 , version 1 (18-09-2018)

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Guillaume Chauvel, Estelle Palluel, Arthur Brandao, Guillaume Barbieri, Vincent Nougier, et al.. Attentional load of walking in children aged 7–12 and in adults. Gait & Posture, 2017, 56, pp.95 - 99. ⟨10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.04.034⟩. ⟨hal-01876471⟩
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