SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2023
Assessing the Evidential Value of Mental Fatigue and Exercise Research.
Synthesis in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Approaches to inducing mental fatigue: A systematic review and meta-analysis of (neuro)physiologic indices.Behavior research methods · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of mental and physiological fatigue on attentional focus in basketball players: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Individualized Cognitive Effort to Failure Does Not Affect Subsequent Strenuous Physical Performance.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2025Trial
- Reconceptualising Mental Fatigue via Perceptual Control: From Concept Label to Constitutive Definition.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Do All Paths Lead to Mental Fatigue or Is It Merely a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Task Failure in Endurance Sports: A Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- [A novel mental fatigue detecting method based on single-channel electroencephalogram using hybrid convolutional neural network combined with Transformer].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026Article
- Current Practices for Mental Fatigue Quantification and Induction in Movement Science: Introducing the SPeCIFY Guidelines.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Brain endurance training as a strategy for reducing mental fatigue.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
It has often been reported that mental exertion, presumably leading to mental fatigue, can negatively affect exercise performance; however, recent findings have questioned the strength of the effect. To further complicate this issue, an overlooked problem might be the presence of publication bias in studies using underpowered designs, which is known to inflate false positive report probability and effect size estimates. Altogether, the presence of bias is likely to reduce the evidential value of the published literature on this topic, although it is unknown to what extent. The purpose of the current work was to assess the evidential value of studies published to date on the effect of mental exertion on exercise performance by assessing the presence of publication bias and the observed statistical power achieved by these studies. A traditional meta-analysis revealed a Cohen's d
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