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

doi:10.5334/joc.126

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

Journal of Cognition

Volume 3 (2020): Issue 1

By: Darías Holgado , Daniel Sanabria, José C. Perales and Miguel A. Vadillo

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Submitted on: Mar 2, 2020

Accepted on: Sep 17, 2020

Published on: Oct 9, 2020

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Keywords:

Cognitive Control,

Statistical analysis,

Executive functions,

mental effort

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