Neural predictors of gait stability when walking freely in the real-world

Table 1 Single- and dual-task gait measures. Condition-by-condition mean (± SD) measures of gait performance (N = 14)

	Single Task	Dual Task 1	Dual Task 2	Anova F	Anova p
Stride Duration (ms)	1054 (± 87)	1060 (± 79)	1106 (± 107), *	12.165	0.001
Mean Step Length (m)	0.53 (± 0.06)	0.52 (± 0.08)	0.51 (± 0.07)	0.0769	N.S.
Velocity (m/s)	0.90 (± 0.10)	0.86 (± 0.10)*	0.78 (± 0.12), *	34.215	0.001
ver-RMS	2.65 (± 0.56)	2.59 (± 0.55)	2.26 (± 0.63), *	17.554	0.001
ml-RMS	1.48 (± 0.32)	1.47 (± 0.31)	1.37 (± 0.40)*	7.769	0.008
ap-RMS	2.19 (± 0.28)	2.09 (± 0.25)	0.96 (± 0.33), *	16.946	0.001
ver-RMSR	0.70 (± 0.05)	0.70 (± 0.05)	0.67 (± 0.06)**	5.839	0.008
ml-RMSR	0.40 (± 0.07)	0.40 (± 0.06)	0.41 (± 0.08)	1.735	N.S.
ap-RMSR	0.59 (± 0.06)	0.58 (± 0.053)	0.60 (± 0.06)**	7.165	0.003
ver-Step Regularity	0.75 (± 0.09)	0.69 (± 0.19)	0.69 (± 0.13)	2.027	N.S.
ap-Step Regularity	0.76 (± 0.09)	0.73 (± 0.11)	0.71 (± 0.09)*	6.642	0.005

Repeated measures ANOVA p-values are reported in the right-side column. Statistically significant paired-samples t-test corrected for multiple comparisons are highlighted with * (ST vs DT_i with i = 1, 2) and/or ** (DT1 vs. DT2). N.S., not significant

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