Decision-making performance and motor skill consistency in basketball short pass–shot sequences under different levels of mental fatigue: an integrated psychophysiological dynamics analysis
Xinyu Zhou, Shaofei Hou, Yuanbin Sang, Jiahao Jiang, Liao Hu, Lun Li · 2026
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Xinyu Zhou and colleagues measured how mental fatigue degrades basketball play in a 2026 study. Players must decide and move in one fast flow, and long mental effort may disturb both. The team put trained players through a pass and shot sequence at three fatigue levels.
Twenty-seven male university players completed low, moderate, and high fatigue conditions in a crossover design, with movement and body signals recorded throughout. As fatigue rose, decision accuracy fell, reactions slowed, and sequence success dropped. Movements also grew less consistent, with wider timing swings and bigger force fluctuations. Skin conductance rose while heart rate variability fell, a pattern of higher strain. The authors advise tracking mental fatigue in training as carefully as physical load.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xinyu Zhou, Shaofei Hou, Yuanbin Sang, Jiahao Jiang, Liao Hu, Lun Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |