A cross-sectional analysis on the effects of age on dual tasking in typically developing children

Saxena, Shikha; Majnemer, Annette; Li, Karen; Beauchamp, Miriam H.; Gagnon, Isabelle

doi:10.1007/s00426-018-1126-0

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“…That is, older children and adults are able to complete more complex dual tasks than younger children, while children around 2 years of age may have difficulty completing simple dual tasks. 17 18 19 Dual-task training has also been used to improve function in elderly people with cognitive decline. 20 When dual-task paradigms are applied to SLP incorporating horses, the physical task is staying centered and balanced on a moving horse and the cognitive task is communication.…”

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Speech-Language Pathology Incorporating Horses

Macauley

2022

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Incorporating horses into speech-language pathology services is a valid treatment strategy that can be used to help the client achieve their communication and/or swallowing goals. The purpose of this article is to discuss the history and terminology of incorporating horses into rehabilitation, explain theories for why incorporating horses works, and provide clinical applications to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's nine areas of practice with clinical reports.

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Speech-Language Pathology Incorporating Horses

Macauley

2022

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“…Thus, during the dual-task conditions, we increased difficulty of the cognitive tasks to an extent that we could assume a suitable even load for each test person in each task condition (cf. Saxena, Majnemer, Li, Beauchamp, & Gagnon, 2018; Schaefer, Krampe, Lindenberger, & Baltes, 2008; Somberg & Salthouse, 1982).…”

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“…3(−) Multiplier for variables with an expected performance decrement in the dual-task situation (e.g., gait velocity); (+) multiplier for variables with an expected performance increase in the dual-task situation (e.g., gait variability, cf. Saxena et al, 2018). Please note that some participants showed no errors in the single task, making the calculation of cognitive DTCs impossible for these participants (i.e., dividing by 0).…”

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Effects of various executive functions on adults’ and children’s walking.

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Segerer³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Walking is human’s most important locomotion. Until recently, walking was seen as an automated motor task that requires only minimal cognitive resources. However, recent studies indicate that walking requires higher-level cognitive processes such as executive functions. A different line of research suggests that executive functions consist of 3 core components: inhibition, switching, and updating. Combining these findings, the present study clarified which executive-function component is most essential for human walking. Applying a dual-task methodology, adults (n = 37) and 8- to 13-year-old children (n = 134) walked repeatedly across an electronic pathway while solving an inhibition, switching, and updating task. Both adults and children showed the largest gait alterations in the updating and switching task as opposed to inhibition. Likewise, their cognitive performance revealed the largest performance reductions from single- to dual-task situations in the updating task. Overall, our results highlight remarkable similarities in children’s and adults’ performance with updating working memory representations and switching between rule sets being the most essential cognitive processes for walking. These findings point to a general gait-cognition process. Results have important theoretical value and hold practical implications for creating effective intervention programs.

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