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Maëlle Tixier¹, Corinne Cian^1,2, Pierre-Alain Barraud¹

¹Université Grenoble Alpes.

|January 9, 2021

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Keywords:

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Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Postural control is crucial for maintaining stability.
Cognitive load, particularly from memory tasks, can influence motor performance.
Understanding the interplay between memory systems and postural control is important for cognitive and motor neuroscience.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effects of different long-term memory types (episodic vs. semantic) on postural control in young adults.
To compare postural responses during dual-tasking involving memory recall and upright stance.

Main Methods:

Young adults performed unperturbed upright stance tasks.
Participants engaged in dual-tasking, involving recalling episodic or semantic memories concurrently with maintaining balance.
Postural sway was analyzed using measures like mean distance, velocity, power spectral density, and sample entropy.

Main Results:

Dual-tasking significantly altered postural control compared to a simple postural task, increasing sway velocity and high-frequency power, and reducing regularity.
Mean sway velocity was consistently higher during semantic memory recall than during episodic memory recall.
Despite these differences, overall steadiness (mean distance) was comparable between memory conditions.

Conclusions:

Cognitive processes engaged during memory recall impact postural control strategies.
Findings suggest potential spatial resource sharing between postural control and episodic memory retrieval.
The type of memory engaged (episodic vs. semantic) differentially affects the neural resources allocated to postural stability.