Using a dual‐task paradigm to investigate motor and cognitive performance in children with intellectual disability

Kachouri, Hiba; Laatar, Rabeb; Borji, Rihab; Rebai, Haithem; Sahli, Sonia

doi:10.1111/jar.12655

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“…When people perform a dual task, there is usually a deterioration in one or both tasks’ performance [ 24 ]. For example, some studies showed that walking while simultaneously carrying a cup [ 25 ] or transferring coins from one pocket to the other [ 26 ] reduces the gait performance compared to only walking. Others studies reported that maintaining an upright position while performing a cognitive task decreases the postural stability compared to performing a single task [ 27 , 28 ].…”

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Effects of Motor Task Difficulty on Postural Control Complexity during Dual Tasks in Young Adults: A Nonlinear Approach

Saraiva

Vilas-Boas

Fernandes

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Few studies have evaluated the effect of a secondary motor task on the standing posture based on nonlinear analysis. However, it is helpful to extract information related to the complexity, stability, and adaptability to the environment of the human postural system. This study aimed to analyze the effect of two motor tasks with different difficulty levels in motor performance complexity on the static standing posture in healthy young adults. Thirty-five healthy participants (23.08 ± 3.92 years) performed a postural single task (ST: keep a quiet standing posture) and two motor dual tasks (DT). i.e., mot-DT(A)—perform the ST while performing simultaneously an easy motor task (taking a smartphone out of a bag, bringing it to the ear, and putting it back in the bag)—and mot-DT(T)—perform the ST while performing a concurrent difficult motor task (typing on the smartphone keyboard). The approximate entropy (ApEn), Lyapunov exponent (LyE), correlation dimension (CoDim), and fractal dimension (detrending fluctuation analysis, DFA) for the mediolateral (ML) and anterior-posterior (AP) center-of-pressure (CoP) displacement were measured with a force plate while performing the tasks. A significant difference was found between the two motor dual tasks in ApEn, DFA, and CoDim-AP (p < 0.05). For the ML CoP direction, all nonlinear variables in the study were significantly different (p < 0.05) between ST and mot-DT(T), showing impairment in postural control during mot-DT(T) compared to ST. Differences were found across ST and mot-DT(A) in ApEn-AP and DFA (p < 0.05). The mot-DT(T) was associated with less effectiveness in postural control, a lower number of degrees of freedom, less complexity and adaptability of the dynamic system than the postural single task and the mot-DT(A).

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Effects of Motor Task Difficulty on Postural Control Complexity during Dual Tasks in Young Adults: A Nonlinear Approach

Saraiva

Vilas-Boas

Fernandes

et al. 2023

Sensors

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“…Second, evidence suggests that II‐athletes have heightened susceptibility to DT effects, which may be attributed to their smaller cognitive resource pool due to impairment. Several studies observed greater performance decline in DT situations in II‐children 14,15 as well as II‐adults 16,17 compared to their non‐II‐counterparts. In contrast, greater resistance to DT effects has been demonstrated for elite athletes from various sports like athletics, 3 gymnastics, 18 and table tennis 19 .…”

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Cognitive–motor multitasking in athletes with and without intellectual impairment

Pineda

Krampe²,

Vanlandewijck

et al. 2021

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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Purpose We investigated cognitive–motor multitasking in 29 top athletes with intellectual impairment (II) recruited during the European Championship Games organized by Virtus (World Intellectual Impairment Sports) and 29 control (CT) athletes matched for age, sex, sports practiced, and lifetime accumulated practice hours. Methods Participants performed a cognitive task that required recognizing previously displayed visual objects among distractors. The motor task required maintaining a stable upright posture balancing on a rocking board placed atop a force plate which assessed center‐of‐pressure (COP) movement. Both tasks were performed separately (with participants seated for the cognitive single task) and concurrently under dual‐task conditions, wherein participants memorized objects while balancing. We analyzed recognition accuracy, COP path length, and sample entropy of the COP trajectory as a measure for automaticity of postural control. Results As expected, CT‐athletes outperformed II‐athletes in the cognitive task but the two groups have comparable performance in the postural task under single‐ and dual‐task conditions. When multitasking, CT‐athletes switched to more automatic postural control and maintained their postural sway at single‐task levels. II‐athletes prioritized balance thereby successfully keeping COP excursion comparable to single‐task conditions. However, this came with pronounced costs for memory performance, which was unaffected by multitasking in CT‐athletes. Conclusion The adaptive capacity observed in control athletes was not at the disposal of II‐athletes who revealed pronounced sensitivities to multitasking interference. This sensitivity obviously was not compensated for by either athletic competence or potential transfer of athletic skill to domain‐general cognitive functions.

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“…This is because the central nervous system, which regulates motor and cognitive abilities, often shows some degree of delay in individuals with IDD (Reguera-García et al, 2021). In addition, individuals with IDD may have several functional disorders of balance (Bahiraei et al, 2018;Bahiraei, 2019), motor (Cleaver et al, 2009;Galli, Rigoldi, Mainardi, et al, 2008;Giagazoglou et al, 2013), and cognitive ability (Galli, Rigoldi, Mainardi, et al, 2008;Kachouri et al, 2020). Delays in motor and cognitive development affect the gait patterns of individuals with IDD because their efficiency and performance depend on the coordination between these systems (Lopes Pedralli & Schelle, 2013).…”

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The Effects of Postural Training on Gait Kinematics in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Bahiraei¹,

Oviedo²,

Hosseini³

2023

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This study examines the effects and durability of postural exercise on gait kinematics in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Thirty-four men with mild IDD were assigned to either the training group (n = 19) or the control group (n = 15). The TG performed the intervention over 8 weeks, 3 days/week, 1 h/day. The results indicated that the intervention program had a significant effect on some variables of gait. Also, in the TG between post-test and follow-up, there was no significant difference, which indicated that gait variables were maintained by the TG one month after the end of the program. This study provides evidence that postural exercises can be used as an effective intervention for improving gait in individuals with IDD.

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Using a dual‐task paradigm to investigate motor and cognitive performance in children with intellectual disability

Cited by 21 publications

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Effects of Motor Task Difficulty on Postural Control Complexity during Dual Tasks in Young Adults: A Nonlinear Approach

Effects of Motor Task Difficulty on Postural Control Complexity during Dual Tasks in Young Adults: A Nonlinear Approach

Cognitive–motor multitasking in athletes with and without intellectual impairment

The Effects of Postural Training on Gait Kinematics in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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