use of motor abundance in young and older adults during dual-task treadmill walking在年轻人和老年人使用电动机丰富一心二用地跑步机上行走.pdfVIP

Use of Motor Abundance in Young and Older Adults during Dual-Task Treadmill Walking 1 1,2 3 4 1,5 Leslie M. Decker *, Fabien Cignetti , Jane F. Potter , Stephanie A. Studenski , Nicholas Stergiou 1 Nebraska Biomechanics Core Facility, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, 2 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (UMR ´ 7291), CNRS Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille, France, 3 Division of Geriatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, 4 Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 5 College of Public Health Department, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America Abstract Motor abundance allows individuals to perform any task reliably while being variable in movement’s particulars. The study investigated age-related differences in this feature when young adults (YA) and older adults (OA) performed challenging tasks, namely treadmill walking alone and while performing a cognitive task. A goal function for treadmill walking was first defined, i.e., maintain constant speed at each step, which led to a goal equivalent manifold (GEM) containing all combinations of step time and step length that equally satisfied the function. Given the GEM, amounts of goal-equivalent and non-goal-equivalent variability were afterwards determined and used to define an index providing information about the set of effective motor solutions relative to the GEM. The set was limited in OA compared to YA in treadmill walking alone, indicating that OA ma