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Interference between oculomotor and postural tasks in 7–8-year-old children and adults

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Several studies in adults having observed the effect of eye movements on postural control provided contradictory results. In the present study, we explored the effect of various oculomotor tasks on postural control and the effect of different postural tasks on eye movements in eleven children (7.8 ± 0.5 years) and nine adults (30.4 ± 6.3 years). To vary the difficulty of the oculomotor task, three conditions were tested: fixation, prosaccades (reactive saccades made toward the target) and antisaccades (voluntary saccades made in the direction opposite to the visual target). To vary the difficulty of postural control, two postural tasks were tested: Standard Romberg (SR) and Tandem Romberg (TR). Postural difficulty did not affect oculomotor behavior, except by lengthening adults' latencies in the prosaccade task. For both groups, postural control was altered in the antisaccade task as compared to fixation and prosaccade tasks. Moreover, a ceiling effect was found in the more complex postural task. This study highlighted a cortical interference between oculomotor and postural control systems.
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hal-01876465 , version 1 (18-09-2018)

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Agathe Legrand, Karine Doré Mazars, Christelle Lemoine, Vincent Nougier, Isabelle Olivier. Interference between oculomotor and postural tasks in 7–8-year-old children and adults. Experimental Brain Research, 2016, 234 (6), pp.1667 - 1677. ⟨10.1007/s00221-016-4565-0⟩. ⟨hal-01876465⟩
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