Document Type : Original research study
Authors
1 shahid beheshti university, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Behavior in sport, Faculty of Sport Science, Shahid Beheshti University
2 shahid beheshti university
3 the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of mental fatigue on the neural efficacy of the executive control network in athletes. To this aim, 22 professional athletes’ students participated voluntarily. In order to measure the processing speed and the percentage of error in the control network, attention network test was conducted before and after mental fatigue. The subjects performed the Stroop test for 60 minutes in order to create mental fatigue. Then, they were asked to perform the attention network test. The results of dependent t-test indicated a significant increase in the error rate of the executive control network during mental fatigue. However, processing speed was not affected by mental fatigue. The findings support the reduction in the efficiency of task processing, which is influenced by the speed-accuracy exchange. Therefore, decreasing the effect of processing accuracy indicated the inhibition mechanism and the improvement of processing speed caused by activating the facilitation mechanism in the dual-regulation system.
Keywords
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