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Synchronization Dynamics Modulates Stride-To-Stride Fluctuations When Walking To An Invariant But Not To A Fractal-Like Stimulus, Joao R. Vaz, Boman Groff, Douglas Rowen, Brian Knarr, Nicholas Stergiou

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Walking with different types of cueing/stimulus (i.e. auditory, visual) has been shown to alter gait variability, thus emerging as an innovative therapeutical tool to restore abnormal gait variability in clinical populations. However, the majority of the research in this area has focused on auditory stimuli while visual stimuli are an understudied alternative that needs more attention, particularly due to the natural dependence on vision during walking. Furthermore, the time differences between the occurrences of the walking steps and the sensory cues, also known as asynchronies, have also received minimal attention, even though the ability to synchronize with different stimuli is …