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Titel: Age-related changes in children’s cognitive–motor dual tasking: Evidence from a large cross-sectional sample
VerfasserIn: Möhring, Wenke
Klupp, Stephanie
Zumbrunnen, Rijana
Segerer, Robin
Schaefer, Sabine
Grob, Alexander
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Bandnummer: 206
Verlag/Plattform: Elsevier
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Freie Schlagwörter: Dual task
Development
Walking
Gait
Executive functions
Children
DDC-Sachgruppe: 796 Sport
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Children coordinate two tasks simultaneously at several occasions throughout the day; however, this dual-task ability and its development across childhood are poorly understood. Therefore, the current study investigated age-related changes in children’s dualtask ability using a large cross-sectional sample of 8- to 13-yearold children (N = 135). In our dual-task methodology, children were asked to walk across an electronic pathway while performing three concurrent cognitive tasks. These tasks targeted at children’s executive function components: inhibition, switching, and updating skills. Our findings indicate associations between age and children’s stride time variability but not with normalized velocity. Younger children showed higher stride time variability in the dual-task situation as compared with older children after accounting for their single-task performance, intelligence, anthropometric variables, and sex, indicating a more regular gait pattern in older children. Furthermore, age was differently related to children’s accuracy in solving the concurrent cognitive tasks. Whereas age was associated with children’s performance in the updating and switching task, there was no relation between age and children’s inhibitory skills. In addition, our data imply that children’s dualtask ability was associated with a number of individual variables. In particular, children with higher intelligence scores showed fewer errors and girls showed lower stride time variability in the dual tasks. Our results suggest a considerable developmental progression in children’s ability to coordinate two simultaneous tasks across middle childhood. Furthermore, our study qualifies previous dual-task research and implies that heterogeneous findings may be related to a differential involvement of executive function components in the dual task.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105103
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096521000205?via%3Dihub
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-363209
hdl:20.500.11880/32987
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-36320
Datum des Eintrags: 1-Jun-2022
Fakultät: HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung: HW - Sportwissenschaft
Professur: HW - Prof. Dr. Sabine Schäfer
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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