ArticleExperimental brain research2020
Balance control is impaired by mental fatigue due to the fulfilment of a continuous cognitive task or by the watching of a documentary.
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- A plausible link between the time-on-task effect and the sequential task effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Tremor, finger and hand dexterity and force steadiness, do not change after mental fatigue in healthy humans.PloS one · 2022Article
- Effects of Physical and Mental Fatigue on Postural Sway and Cortical Activity in Healthy Young Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Event-related desynchronization in motor imagery with EEG neurofeedback in the context of declarative interference and sleep.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
- Relationship between the level of mental fatigue induced by a prolonged cognitive task and the degree of balance disturbance.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of mental fatigue (MF) induced by a 90-min continuous demanding cognitive task on balance control. Twenty healthy young participants were recruited. They had to perform three postural tasks (on a stable support with eyes open, with eyes closed and on a wobble board) while standing on a force platform before and after watching a documentary in a control condition or carrying out a prolonged continuous demanding cognitive task (AX-continuous performance test-AX-CPT) in a MF condition. Results showed that performing the AX-CPT generated MF since participants felt a higher subjective workload from the NASA Task Load Index after the AX-CPT than after viewing the documentary. Both the AX-CPT and the viewing of the documentary impaired balance control, mainly by affecting postural regulatory mechanisms which evolved towards a less automatic and less complex regulation mode with an increased participation of cognitive resources. MF generated by the AX-CPT affected balance control by compromising the attentional processing, while the deleterious influence of watching a documentary on postural control could stem from an adverse effect of prolonged sitting on balance control during subsequent standing.
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