The significant decline on GV while engaging in dual-tasking found in our participants is in agreement with previous research which shows that gait performance in older persons may be increasingly dependent on cognitive control when compared with younger adults [ 47- 49].
Research has also shown that students often choose to engage in multi-tasking activities in parallel with learning activities to fight boredom, entertain themselves, and stay connected to the outside world (McCoy 2013).
Therefore, walking an extended distance, which was the primary task in dual-tasking, may be useful for assessing the risk of falls among community-dwelling older adults.
In dual-tasking, motor performances in group 1 were lower than those in group 2, except for the number-of-steps parameter, where there was no significant difference.
The problems associated due to the inefficiencies in data management get amplified in multi-tasking, and shared Big Data environments.
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These results suggest that attention division in dual-tasking situations plays an important role in movement execution and detection.
We found enhanced activity during multitasking in components of the network that were already involved in dual-tasking, suggesting increased working memory demands, as well as recruitment of multitask-specific components including areas that are likely to be involved in online holding of visual stimuli in short-term memory such as occipito-temporal cortex.
In any case, these findings suggest that the significant improvement in multi-tasking performance following the caffeine glucose drink reflects direct effects on performance rather than a secondary effect of improved arousal/alertness.
This demonstrates that variability of frontopolar cortex patients in multi-tasking performance is primarily explained by the size of the lesion in BA 10.
