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The incorporation of a concurrent cognitive task as a complex measure of gait in this clinical population could lead to better health-related outcomes. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Objective<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> To compare the effect of planned and unplanned gait termination with and without a concurrent cognitive task on reaction time (RT), gait velocity, and GTT. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Design<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Cross-sectional. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Setting<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Laboratory. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Participants<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Twenty young adults (females 60.0%, age 20.1 [0.9]\u00a0y, height 169.5 [8.8]\u00a0cm, mass 67.4 [10.8]\u00a0kg). <jats:italic><jats:bold>Intervention<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Participants completed 6 planned and 6 unplanned gait termination trials on an instrumented gait mat with and without a cognitive task. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Main Outcome Measures<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> The authors measured RT (s), gait velocity (m\/s), GTT (s), and normalized GTT (s<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\/m). A 2 (motor)\u2009\u00d7\u20092 (cognitive) repeated-measures analysis of variance (<jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.05) was used; significant interaction effects were explored using Bonferroni-corrected <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> tests (<jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.008). <jats:italic><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Participants walked more slowly during dual-task trials compared with single-task trials (<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>1,19<\/jats:sub>\u2009=\u20094.401, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.050). Participants walked significantly more slowly with a cognitive task during planned (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.001, mean difference\u2009=\u2009\u22120.184\u00a0m\/s, 95% CI, \u22120.256 to \u22120.111) and unplanned (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.001, mean difference\u2009=\u2009\u22120.111\u00a0m\/s, 95% CI, \u22120.173 to \u22120.050) gait termination. Participants walked significantly more slowly (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.001, mean difference\u2009=\u2009\u22120.142\u00a0m\/s, 95% CI, \u22120.210 to \u22120.075) when performing the most difficult task, unplanned termination with a cognitive task, than when performing the least difficult task, planned termination with no cognitive task. We observed a cognitive task main effect such that adding a cognitive task increased RT (<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>1,19<\/jats:sub>\u2009=\u200916.375, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.001, mean difference\u2009=\u2009\u22120.118\u00a0s, 95% CI, \u22120.178 to \u22120.057) and slowed normalized GTT (<jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>1,19<\/jats:sub>\u2009=\u20095.655, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.028, mean difference\u2009=\u2009\u22120.167\u00a0s<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\/m, 95% CI, \u22120.314 to \u22120.020). <jats:italic><jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Overall, participants displayed more conservative gait strategies and slower RT, normalized GTT, and gait velocity as task difficulty increased. 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