Mechanical and cognitive postural challenges drive shifts in whole-body coordination network
Madhur Mangalam·Assistant Professor Damian G. Kelty-Stephen·Theodoros Deligiannis·Mahsa Barfi·Brian Schlattmann·Matheus M. Pacheco
Abstract Conventional human movement science often considers body parts and processes separately as belonging to complementary but distinct domains (motor control, cognition). We break with this tradition by exploring how mechanical and cognitive demands jointly shape whole-body functional coordination in healthy young adults. Forty-eight participants performed postural control tasks under four conditions: stable surface without cognitive load, stable surface with the Trail Making Test (TMT) Par