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Nafati, Gilel; Vuillerme, Nicolas – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
This experiment was designed to investigate whether and how decreasing the amount of attentional focus invested in postural control could affect bipedal postural control. Twelve participants were asked to stand upright as immobile as possible on a force platform in one control condition and one cognitive condition. In the latter condition, they…
Descriptors: Human Posture, Adults, Attention, Attention Control
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Perrot, Alexandra; Gagnon, Christine; Bertsch, Jean – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
A relatively universal observation in aging studies is that cognitive functions inevitably decline across the adult life span. More specifically, executive functions decline substantially with age, as do the frontal and prefrontal brain regions that support them. Indeed, these regions are subject to important neurological modifications with…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Attention Control