Young adults use whole-body feedback and ankle proprioception to perceive small locomotor disturbances.

To prevent a fall when a disturbance to walking is encountered requires sensory information about the disturbance to be sensed, integrated, and then used to generate an appropriate corrective motor response. Prior research has shown that feedback of whole-body motion (e.g.

Young adults perceive small disturbances to their walking balance even when distracted.

Background: The ability to perceive disturbances to ongoing locomotion (e.g., slips and trips) may play an important role in walking balance control.

Young adults recruit similar motor modules across walking, turning, and chair transfers.

Moving about in the world during daily life requires executing and successfully shifting between a variety of functional tasks, such as rising from a chair or bed, walking, turning, and navigating stairs. Moreover, moving about during daily life requires not only navigating between different functional tasks, but also performing these tasks in the presence of mental distractions. However, little is known about underlying neuromuscular control for executing and shifting between these different tasks.