Reactive Turning Strategies Under Cognitive Load, 19 Participants

Nineteen healthy young adults performed 90° contralateral and ipsilateral reactive turns while walking and completing a flanker task under varying cue timings and conflict conditions. The dataset contains analyzed turning strategies and temporal parameters, including head/pelvis rotation and center of mass deceleration times. The data was authored by Hiroki Ohsawa and published on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between cognitive conflict and postural control timing delays.
• Analyzing the effect of cue timing on turning strategy selection.
• Comparing temporal coordination differences between contralateral and ipsilateral reactive turns.
• Investigating the feasibility of second-step versus third-step turn reorganization under temporal constraints.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a controlled experiment with 19 participants.
• Analysis includes linear mixed models and sensitivity analyses for robustness.
• Dataset is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The participant pool is limited to healthy young adults, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Hiroki Ohsawa via figshare.

Collection Method

Data was collected from a laboratory experiment where participants performed reactive turns while completing a cognitive flanker task.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 11:48:06; freshness should be verified.