How walking while you work can make you more efficient
It has long been thought that when walking is combined with a task, both suffer however, researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester found that this is not always the case. "There was no predictor of who would fall into which category before we tested them, we initially thought that everyone would respond similarly," said Eleni Patelaki, a biomedical engineering PhD student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in the Frederick J. and Marion A. Schindler Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory and first author of the study out now in Cerebral Cortex. It wasn't until we started analyzing their behaviour and brain activity that we found the surprising difference in the group's neural signature and what makes them handle complex dual-tasking processes differently," Patelaki said. His previous work has highlighted the flexibility of a healthy brain, showing the more difficult the task the greater the neurophysiological difference between walking and sitting. "These new findings highlight that the MoBI can show us how the brain responds to walking and how the brain responds to the task," Freedman said.
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