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ReviewJournal of cognition2020

Mental Fatigue Might Be Not So Bad for Exercise Performance After All: A Systematic Review and Bias-Sensitive Meta-Analysis.

Darías Holgado, Daniel Sanabria, José C Perales, Miguel A Vadillo

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Review in Journal of cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Mental Fatigue-Associated Decrease in Table Tennis Performance: Is There an Electrophysiological Signature?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  9. Investigating the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Resistance Exercise Performance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  11. Task Failure in Endurance Sports: A Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Darías HolgadoCentro de Investigación, Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), Universidad de Granada, ES.ORCID 0000-0003-3211-8006
Daniel SanabriaCentro de Investigación, Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), Universidad de Granada, ES.
José C PeralesCentro de Investigación, Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), Universidad de Granada, ES.
Miguel A VadilloDepartamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES.ORCID 0000-0001-8421-816X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 human performance. This issue has attracted attention from several fields, including sport and exercise sciences. In fact, a considerable body of literature in the sport science field has suggested that performing a long and demanding cognitive task might lead to a state of mental fatigue, impairing subsequent exercise performance, although research in this field has shown contradictory results. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to investigate these inconsistent findings. The analysis yielded small-to-medium effects of mental fatigue on exercise performance,

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Cognitive ControlExecutive functionsmental effortStatistical analysis

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PMID33103052
PMCPMC7546119

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