Impact of dual tasking on gaze behaviour and locomotor strategies adopted while circumventing virtual pedestrians during a collision avoidance task

• Published in: Experimental brain research Vol. 240; no. 10; pp. 2633 - 2645
• Main Authors: Bhojwani, Trineta M., Lynch, Sean D., Bühler, Marco A., Lamontagne, Anouk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.10.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Attention; Avoidance behavior; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cognitive ability; Collisions; Gaze; Health aspects; Multitasking (Human behavior); Neurology; Neurosciences; Observations; Oculomotor behavior; Pedestrians; Physiological aspects; Quality of life; Research Article; Sensorimotor integration; Visual perception; Walking; Young adults; Canada; Locomotion; Cognitive load; Eye movements; Collision avoidance; Pedestrian interactions; Virtual reality

We investigated gaze behaviour and collision avoidance strategies in 16 healthy young individuals walking towards a goal while exposed to virtual pedestrians (VRPs) approaching from different directions (left, middle, right). This locomotor task and an auditory-based cognitive task were performed un...