The capacity to recover after a perturbation is a well-known intrinsic property of physiological systems, including the locomotor system, and can be termed 'resilience' Despite an abundance of metrics proposed to measure the complex dynamics of bipedal locomotion, analytical tools for quantifying resilience are lacking. Here, we introduce a novel method to directly quantify resilience to perturbations during locomotion. We examined the extent to which synchronizing stepping with two different temporal structured auditory stimuli (periodic and 1/ structure) during walking modulates resilience to a large unexpected perturbation.
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