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Walking Gives the Brain a 'Step-Up' in Function for Some - Neuroscience News

Walking Gives the Brain a 'Step-Up' in Function for Some - Neuroscience News

Walking Gives the Brain a 'Step-Up' in Function for Some - Neuroscience News
Jun 21, 2022 2 mins, 3 secs

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Summary: For some, cognitive performance on tasks improves while walking via a change in the use of neural resources.

Some young and healthy people improve performance on cognitive tasks while walking by changing the use of neural resources.

When walking was added to performing the same task, investigators found that different behaviors appeared, with some people performing worse than their sitting baseline—as expected based on previous studies—but also with some others improving compared to their sitting baseline.

The electroencephalogram, or EEG, data showed that the 14 participants who improved at the task while walking had a change in frontal brain function which was absent in the 12 participants who did not improve.

His previous work has highlighted the flexibility of a healthy brain, showing the more difficult the task the greater the neurophysiological difference between walking and sitting.

Expanding this research to older adults could guide scientists to identify a possible marker for “super agers” or people who have a minimal decline in cognitive functions.

“Young adults who improve performance during dual-task walking show more flexible reallocation of cognitive resources: a mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) study” by Eleni Patelaki et al.

Young adults who improve performance during dual-task walking show more flexible reallocation of cognitive resources: a mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) study

In young adults, pairing a cognitive task with walking can have different effects on gait and cognitive task performance

This study investigates the preliminary finding of behavioral improvement in Go/NoGo response inhibition task performance during walking compared with sitting, which was observed at the piloting stage

Mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) was used to record electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, 3-dimensional (3D) gait kinematics and behavioral responses in the cognitive task, during sitting or walking on a treadmill

In a cohort of 26 young adults, 14 participants improved in measures of cognitive task performance while walking compared with sitting

These participants exhibited walking-related EEG amplitude reductions over frontal scalp regions during key stages of inhibitory control (conflict monitoring, control implementation, and pre-motor stages), accompanied by reduced stride-to-stride variability and faster responses to stimuli compared with those who did not improve

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