title: Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether listening to relaxing music would help reduce mental fatigue and to maintain performance after a continuous performance task. The experiment involved two fatigue evaluation phases carried out before and after a fatigue inducing phase. A 1-hour AX-continuous performance test was used to induce mental fatigue in the fatigue-inducing phase, and participants' subjective evaluation on the mental fatigue, as well as their neurobehavioral performance in a Go/NoGo task, were measured before and after the fatigue-inducing phase. A total of 36 undergraduate students (18-22 years) participated in the study and were randomly assigned to the music group and control group. The music group performed the fatigue-inducing task while listening to relaxing music, and the control group performed the same task without any music. Our results revealed that after the fatigue-inducing phase, (a) the music group demonstrated significantly less mental fatigue than control group, (b) reaction time significantly increased for the control group but not for the music group, (c) larger Go-P3 and NoGo-P3 amplitudes were observed in the music group, although larger NoGo-N2 amplitudes were detected for both groups. These results combined to suggest that listening to relaxing music alleviated the mental fatigue associated with performing an enduring cognitive-motor task.
authors: School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Guo
authors: China Table Tennis College, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Ren
authors: School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
authors: Biye
authors: B
authors: Wang
authors: Division of Kinesiology and Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America.
authors: Qin
authors: Q
authors: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001519:Behavior; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology*; D009146:Music; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011897:Random Allocation; D011930:Reaction Time; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D055815:Young Adult