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| Title |
Thinking While Walking: Experienced High-Heel Walkers Flexibly Adjust Their Gait
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00316 |
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| Authors |
Sabine Schaefer, Ulman Lindenberger |
| Abstract |
Theories of motor-skill acquisition postulate that attentional demands of motor execution decrease with practice. Hence, motor experts should experience less attentional resource conflict when performing a motor task in their domain of expertise concurrently with a demanding cognitive task. We assessed cognitive and motor performance in high-heel experts and novices who were performing a working memory task while walking in gym shoes or high heels on a treadmill. Surprisingly, neither group showed lower working memory performance when walking than when sitting, irrespective of shoe type. However, high-heel experts adapted walking regularity more flexibly to shoe type and cognitive load than novices, by reducing the variability of time spent in the single-support phase of the gait cycle in high heels when cognitively challenged. We conclude that high-heel expertise is associated with more flexible adjustments of movement patterns. Future research should investigate whether a more demanding walking task (e.g., wearing high heels on uneven surfaces and during gait perturbations) results in expertise-related differences in the simultaneous execution of a cognitive task. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 34 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 21% |
| United States | 5 | 15% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 6% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 3% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 14 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 79% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 9% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 68 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 14% |
| Researcher | 6 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 14 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 18 | 25% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 19% |
| Sports and Recreations | 12 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 14 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2013.
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#1,072,381
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#2,228
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#8,990
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#104
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So far Altmetric has tracked 33,431 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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