| Title |
Cognitive Functioning and Heat Strain: Performance Responses and Protective Strategies
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Sports Medicine, December 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s40279-016-0657-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Cyril Schmit, Christophe Hausswirth, Yann Le Meur, Rob Duffield |
| Abstract |
Despite the predominance of research on physical performance in the heat, many activities require high cognitive functioning for optimal performance (i.e. decision making) and/or health purposes (i.e. injury risk). Prolonged periods of demanding cognitive activity or exercise-induced fatigue will incur altered cognitive functioning. The addition of hot environmental conditions will exacerbate poor cognitive functioning and negatively affect performance outcomes. The present paper attempts to extract consistent themes from the heat-cognition literature to explore cognitive performance as a function of the level of heat stress encountered. More specifically, experimental studies investigating cognitive performance in conditions of hyperthermia, often via the completion of computerised tasks (i.e. cognitive tests), are used to better understand the relationship between endogenous thermal load and cognitive performance. The existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between hyperthermia development and cognitive performance is suggested, and highlights core temperatures of ~38.5 °C as the potential 'threshold' for hyperthermia-induced negative cognitive performance. From this perspective, interventions to slow or blunt thermal loads and protect both task- and hyperthermia-related changes in task performances (e.g. cooling strategies) could be used to great benefit and potentially preserve cognitive performance during heat strain. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 13 | 24% |
| United States | 6 | 11% |
| France | 5 | 9% |
| Australia | 4 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 2% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 16 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 34 | 63% |
| Scientists | 17 | 31% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 165 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 30 | 18% |
| Researcher | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 13% |
| Unknown | 44 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 42 | 25% |
| Psychology | 10 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 9 | 5% |
| Engineering | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 33 | 20% |
| Unknown | 56 | 34% |
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