@misc{10481/71257,
year = {2021},
month = {10},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/71257},
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, d z = 0.50, and RPE, d z = 0.21. However, a three-parameter selection model also revealed evidence of publication or reporting biases, suggesting that the bias-corrected estimates might be substantially lower (0.08 and 0.10, respectively) and non-significant. In sum, current evidence does not provide conclusive support for the claim that mental fatigue has a negative influence on exercise performance.},
organization = {Comunidad de Madrid

PSI2017-85159-P},
organization = {Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

PSI2017-85488-P},
organization = {European Commission},
organization = {Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad},
organization = {European Regional Development Fund},
organization = {Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España

 MINECO	2016-T1/SOC-1395},
publisher = {Ubiquity Press},
keywords = {Cognitive Control},
keywords = {Statistical analysis},
keywords = {Executive functions},
keywords = {Mental effort},
title = {Mental Fatigue Might Be Not So Bad for Exercise Performance After All: A Systematic Review and Bias-Sensitive Meta-Analysis},
doi = {10.5334/joc.126},
author = {Holgado Núñez, Darías Manuel and Sanabria Lucena, Daniel and Perales López, José César and Vadillo, Miguel A.},
}