Scientific Programme

Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

IS-SH02 - From the pitch to the lab and back again: Identifying, understanding and dealing with the various effects of fatigue on sport and exercise performance

Date: 03.07.2025, Time: 08:30 - 09:45, Session Room: Anfiteatro

Description

The purposes of our multidisciplinary symposium are threefold. First, the symposium will explore the psychobiological determinants of sport performance. Using field based studies of football players as a context, we will look at the psychological and physiological determinants of sport performance. Second, the symposium will explore the psychobiological correlates of fatigue, effort and performance. Using laboratory studies as a context, we will look at neurophysiological markers, such as EEG, of fatigue, effort and performance. Third, the symposium will explore the effectiveness of psychological and physiological countermeasures to tackle the deleterious effects of mental fatigue on performance. Using studies of young adult athletes and sedentary older adults we will look at the beneficial and detrimental effects of physical and cognitive warmup activities on padel shot accuracy, resistance exercise, endurance exercise, and cognition. The three talks will provide overviews of the relevant literatures before presenting evidence and recommendations for basic scientists and applied practitioners wishing to monitor, measure and moderate the deleterious effects of fatigue on human performance.