Mental fatigue and sport-specific psychomotor performance: a systematic review

J Habay, J Van Cutsem, J Verschueren, S De Bock… - Sports Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Mental fatigue (MF) is a psychobiological state that impairs endurance
performance in healthy athletes. Recently, multiple studies indicated that MF could also …

Interindividual variability in mental fatigue-related impairments in endurance performance: a systematic review and multiple meta-regression

J Habay, R Uylenbroeck, R Van Droogenbroeck… - Sports medicine …, 2023 - Springer
Background The negative effect of mental fatigue (MF) on physical performance has recently
been questioned. One reason behind this could lie in the interindividual differences in MF …

The effect of ego depletion or mental fatigue on subsequent physical endurance performance: A meta-analysis

LS Giboin, W Wolff - Performance Enhancement & Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Two independent lines of research propose that exertion of mental effort can impair
subsequent performance due to ego depletion or mental fatigue. In this meta-analysis, we …

Mental fatigue impairs visuomotor response time in badminton players and controls

J Van Cutsem, K De Pauw, C Vandervaeren… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose It has recently been reported that professional road cyclists have superior inhibitory
control and resistance to mental fatigue compared to recreational cyclists. We sought to …

Micro-doses of recombinant human erythropoietin enhance time trial performance in trained males and females

AB Andersen, J Graae, J Bejder, TC Bonne… - Medicine and Science …, 2023 - pure.au.dk
Purpose: We investigated the effects of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO)
administration on exercise endurance, maximal aerobic performance and total hemoglobin …

Assessing the evidential value of mental fatigue and exercise research

D Holgado, C Mesquida, R Román-Caballero - Sports Medicine, 2023 - Springer
It has often been reported that mental exertion, presumably leading to mental fatigue, can
negatively affect exercise performance; however, recent findings have questioned the …

[HTML][HTML] Mental fatigue might be not so bad for exercise performance after all: a systematic review and bias-sensitive meta-analysis

D Holgado, D Sanabria, JC Perales… - Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is an ongoing debate in the scientific community regarding whether a state of mental
fatigue may have a negative effect upon a range of objective and subjective measures of …

Do cognitive, physical, and combined tasks induce similar levels of mental fatigue? Testing the effects of different moderating variables

A Rubio-Morales, J Díaz-García… - Motor …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
Experts have highlighted the importance of coaches knowing the level of mental fatigue (MF)
induced by different tasks. This study aimed to compare the mentally fatiguing nature of …

No effects of mental fatigue and cerebral stimulation on physical performance of master swimmers

EM Penna, E Filho, BT Campos, RM Ferreira… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Mental fatigue is a psychobiological state caused by extended periods of
cognitive effort, and evidence suggests that mentally fatigued athletes present impaired …

A novel protocol to induce mental fatigue

EK Hassan, AM Jones, G Buckingham - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Mental fatigue is a commonplace human experience which is the focus of a growing body of
research. Whilst researchers in numerous disciplines have attempted to uncover the origins …