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Title
  • en Dual-Task Interference Slows Down Proprioception
Creator
Accessrights open access
Rights
  • en Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Motor Control, 2023, 27(3): 465-479, https://doi.org/10.1123/mc.2022-0075. © Human Kinetics, Inc.
Subject
  • Other en proprioceptive information processing
  • Other en movement execution
  • Other en motor performance
  • Other en working memory
  • Other en joint movement
  • NDC 490
Description
  • Abstract en It is well-known that multitasking impairs the performance of one or both of the concomitant ongoing tasks. Previous studies have mainly focused on how a secondary task can compromise visual or auditory information processing. However, despite dual tasking being critical to motor performance, the effects of dual-task performance on proprioceptive information processing have not been studied yet. The purpose of the present study was, therefore, to investigate whether sensorimotor task performance would be affected by the dual task and if so, in which phase of the sensorimotor task performance would this negative effect occur. The kinematic variables of passive and active knee movements elicited by the leg drop test were analyzed. Thirteen young adults participated in the study. The dual task consisted of performing serial subtractions. The results showed that the dual task increased both the reaction time to counteract passive knee-joint movements in the leg drop test and the threshold to detect those movements. The dual task did not affect the speed and time during the active knee movement and the absolute angle error between the final and the target knee angles. Furthermore, the results showed that the time to complete the sensorimotor task was prolonged in dual tasking. Our findings suggest that dual tasking reduces motor performance due to slowing down proprioceptive information processing without affecting movement execution.
Publisher en Human Kinetics Publishers
Date
    Issued2023-01-04
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/88990
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1123/mc.2022-0075
  • PMID 36599354
Journal
    • PISSN 1087-1640
      • en Motor Control
      • Volume Number27 Issue Number3 Page Start465 Page End479
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