Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
J Sports Sci. 2024 Jul;42(14):1355-1366. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2024.2391651. Epub 2024 Aug 19.
The current study examined whether meditation experience is associated with changes in endurance performance and inhibitory control-relevant neurocognitive functions caused by mental fatigue. Twenty-four athletes with meditation experience (AME) and twenty-five athletes without meditation experience (AWME) underwent a 30-min incongruent Stroop test in mental fatigue condition (MF) and a 30-min congruent Stroop test in control condition (CON) in a randomised-counterbalanced order. Inhibitory control-relevant neurocognitive functions were assessed using Flanker task and event-related potentials, followed by an endurance task using the Bruce treadmill protocol. Visual analogue scale was used to evaluate perceived mental fatigue (VAS-MF) before (T1), after Stroop test (T2) and after Flanker task (T3), and VAS for motivation (VAS-M) was used to evaluate motivation in Flanker task and endurance task. Results indicated that, compared to the CON, AWME in the MF exhibited overall lower accuracy, smaller incongruent N2 amplitude of the Flanker task ( < .05), and shorter time to exhaustion (TTE) of the endurance task ( < .001), whereas AME did not exhibited difference in these outcomes between the conditions. Along with athletes in the MF reported lower VAS-M in endurance task. These findings suggest the benefits of meditation experience in mitigating the negative effects of mental fatigue.
本研究旨在探讨冥想经验是否与由精神疲劳引起的耐力表现和抑制控制相关的神经认知功能的变化有关。24 名有冥想经验的运动员（AME）和 25 名没有冥想经验的运动员（AWME）在精神疲劳条件（MF）下进行了 30 分钟的不一致 Stroop 测试，在控制条件（CON）下进行了 30 分钟的一致 Stroop 测试，以随机平衡的顺序进行。使用 Flanker 任务和事件相关电位评估抑制控制相关的神经认知功能，然后使用 Bruce 跑步机协议进行耐力任务。使用视觉模拟量表（VAS-MF）在（T1）前、Stroop 测试后（T2）和 Flanker 任务后（T3）评估感知的精神疲劳，并使用 Flanker 任务和耐力任务的动机 VAS（VAS-M）评估动机。结果表明，与 CON 相比，MF 中的 AWME 表现出整体较低的准确性，Flanker 任务的不一致 N2 振幅较小（<0.05），耐力任务的疲劳时间（TTE）较短（<0.001），而 AME 在这些结果中没有表现出条件之间的差异。MF 中的运动员报告在耐力任务中的 VAS-M 较低。这些发现表明冥想经验在减轻精神疲劳的负面影响方面具有益处。
