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Isabelle Olivier¹, Rémy Cuisinier, Marianne Vaugoyeau

¹Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, UMR 5525 CNRS-UJF - Equipe Santé, Plasticité, Motricité, Faculté de Médecine, 38706 La Tronche cedex, France. Isabelle.Olivier@ujf-grenoble.fr

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Area of Science:

Developmental psychology
Neuroscience
Biomechanics

Background:

Postural control and cognitive processes interact, particularly during development.
Attentional limitations are key to understanding the interference between cognitive and postural tasks.
Previous research suggests a non-linear relationship between cognitive load and postural stability in children.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the developmental trajectory of dual-task interference between cognitive (Stroop task) and postural (quiet stance) control in children aged 7-11 and adults.
To identify potential turning points in childhood where the interaction between cognitive and postural demands changes.
To explore the role of attentional resources in mediating this dual-task interference.

Main Methods:

A dual-task paradigm was employed, varying the difficulty of a Stroop task and bipedal quiet stance.
Participants included 27 children (7-11 years) and 9 adults performing postural tasks in a semi-tandem Romberg position.
Proprioceptive input was perturbed in some conditions to assess its interaction with cognitive load and postural stability.

Main Results:

Postural control (Center of Pressure mean velocity) improved with increased cognitive complexity only in 7-year-old children under vibratory perturbation.
A non-linear decrease in postural sway (CoP mean amplitude and velocity) was observed during childhood, with significant improvements between ages 7-8 and 11-adult.
These findings indicate a developmental turning point around age 8 for cognitive-postural dual-task performance.

Conclusions:

The interference between cognitive tasks and postural control is primarily mediated by attentional limitations.
A significant developmental turning point in cognitive-postural dual-tasking capacity occurs around age 8 in children.
Mature attentional resource development for dual-tasking is not achieved until age 11, with potential further development in adolescence.