Context expectation influences the gait pattern biomechanics

This dataset is related to 32 healthy, Italian native speaker young adults that walked over a self-paced treadmill (GRAIL, Motek) in different conditions. Particularly two experimental conditions were set: “Motor Interference” condition (MI), and “Motor Expectation” condition (ME). MI aimed to explore putative gait pattern modifications due to auditory stimulation (i.e., audio risky and audio safe) provided simultaneously to the gait pattern recording.  ME condition provided the audios (i.e., audio risky and audio safe) before the starting of gait pattern recording, when participants were not requested to walk (participants were simply requested to listen attentively the audios). Before starting each condition (MI or ME), a 1-min walking period of baseline (B) was recorded. 

Gait data were acquired with a Vicon system and gait parameters were extracted in Matlab.

The dataset includes two sheets related to baseline (ME_B, MI_B), two sheets related to safe auditory stimulation (ME_S, MI_S) and two related to risky stimulation (ME_R, MI_R).

The details about auditory stimulations, data collection and analysis are reported in the following manuscript, that we kindly ask you to cite if you use this dataset:

Ciceri T, Malerba G, Gatti A, Diella E, Peruzzo D, Biffi E, Casartelli L. Context expectation influences the gait pattern biomechanics. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 6;13(1):5644. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32665-7