A novel protocol to induce mental fatigue
dc.contributor.author | Hassan, EK | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, AM | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckingham, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-04T09:01:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-03 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-08-04T08:40:07Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Mental fatigue is a commonplace human experience which is the focus of a growing body of research. Whilst researchers in numerous disciplines have attempted to uncover the origins, nature, and effects of mental fatigue, the literature is marked by many contradictory findings. We identified two major methodological problems for mental fatigue research. First, researchers rarely use objective measures of mental fatigue. Instead, they rely heavily on subjective reports as evidence that mental fatigue has been induced in participants. We aimed to develop a task which led to not only a subjective increase in mental fatigue, but a corresponding performance decrement in the mentally fatiguing task as an objective measure. Secondly, current mental fatigue paradigms have low ecological validity – in most prior studies participants have been fatigued with a single repetitive task such as the n-back or Stroop. To move towards a more ecologically valid paradigm, our participants undertook a battery of diverse cognitive tasks designed to challenge different aspects of executive function. The AX-CPT, n-back, mental rotation, and visual search tasks were chosen to challenge response inhibition, working memory, spatial reasoning, and attention. We report results from 45 participants aged 19 to 63 years who completed a two-hour battery comprising four different cognitive tasks. Subjective fatigue ratings and task performance were measured at the beginning and end of the battery. Our novel method resulted in an increase in subjective ratings of fatigue (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> < 0.001) and a reduction in task performance (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.008). Future research into mental fatigue may benefit from using this task battery. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 3 August 2023 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02191-5 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/M009122/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/P000630/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133702 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer / Psychonomic Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/6hjc3/ | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | AX-CPT | en_GB |
dc.subject | BRUMS | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cognitive fatigue | en_GB |
dc.subject | Methodology | en_GB |
dc.title | A novel protocol to induce mental fatigue | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-04T09:01:59Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1554-351X | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The data and materials for the experiment reported here are available at https://osf.io/6hjc3/ and the experiment was preregistered. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1554-3528 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Behavior Research Methods | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Behavior Research Methods | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-07-03 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-08-03 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-08-04T08:58:06Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-08-04T09:02:00Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-08-03 |
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