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The performance of stroke survivors in turning-while-walking while carrying out a concurrent cognitive task compared with controls.

Wing Nga ChanWilliam Wai Nam Tsang
Published in: PloS one (2017)
The results show that stroke survivors with high mobility function performed the auditory Stroop test less accurately while preserving simultaneous turning-while-walking performance. They also demonstrated poorer performance in both single-tasking and dual-tasking as compared with controls.
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