ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Mental fatigue impairs endurance performance in a time-to-exhaustion handgrip task: psychophysiological markers of effort engagement dynamics.
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Sleep, Mental Fatigue, and Performance: Psychobiological Insights for Optimizing Learning in Physiotherapy and Psychology Students
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effects of brain endurance training on mental fatigue, endurance, and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Comparison between soldiers and fitness-matched civilians on sustained attention, neuromuscular fatigue and perceived responses during an exhaustive cognitive-motor dual-task.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- The Effects of Mental Fatigue on Psychophysiological Responses, Mood States, and Archery Shooting Performance Under a Simulated Archery Competition: A Randomized Cross-Over Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- The Handgrip Endurance Task as a Simple Clinical Indicator of Mental Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.Journal of pain research · 2026Article
- Effects of mental fatigue on basketball-specific decision-making in basketball players of different skill levels: the mediating role of attentional control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Introduction: A growing body of literature showed that mental fatigue induced by an effortful task leads to an impairment in a subsequent physical performance. The principal aim of this experimental study was to reproduce the effect of mental fatigue on endurance performance while investigating the effort deployment in the fatiguing and control tasks that precede the physical task. Methods: Participants performed the following task sequence in a between-subjects design ( Results: Mental fatigue was induced successfully: behavioral and psychophysiological data suggest gradual disengagement of effort in the fatiguing task but not in the control task (increased reaction time and error rate as the function of time in the Stroop task; higher mid-frontal theta during the Stroop task compared to the control task; decreased stimulus-locked theta rhythm over time during the Stroop task; increased low frequency heart rate variability during the Stroop task). In addition, performance decrement in the time to exhaustion handgrip task was larger after the Stroop task than after the documentary viewing task ( Conclusion: This study highlights the importance of assessing both performance and effort engagement to understand mental fatigue. Despite signs of effort disengagement during the Stroop task, mental fatigue still impaired the subsequent physical performance.
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