Benjamin Pageaux

Benjamin Pageaux
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Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Kinesiology

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Introduction
My multidisciplinary background allowed me to acquire knowledge in the neurophysiology of exercise that I am now integrating with theories and experimental techniques from motivation psychology, neuropsychology and psychophysics. My research program aims to understand the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms of effort perception, in order to improve health and performance.
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August 2018 - March 2021
Institut universitaire de gériatrie de montréal
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  • Researcher
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  • http://www.criugm.qc.ca/fr.html
September 2015 - June 2018
University of Burgundy
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  • PostDoc Position
September 2014 - August 2015
University of Burgundy
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  • Attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche

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Publications (102)
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Mental fatigue is known to increase subjective feelings of fatigue and to decrease cognitive performance, but its impact on physical performance remains poorly understood. The aim of this chapter was to review the results of 29 studies published between 2009 and April 2018 and focusing on the impact of mental fatigue on sport-related performance. T...
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Recent literature suggests that when prolonged, motor imagery (MI) induces mental fatigue and negatively impacts subsequent physical exercise. The aim of this study was to confirm this possibility with neurophysiological and self-reported measures. Thirteen participants performed 200 imagined isometric knee extension contractions (Prolonged MI cond...
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Contact sports athletes are regularly facing acute physical pain in part of their sport; however, the literature investigating pain perception in these athletes remains scarce. This scoping review aimed to explore the literature surrounding pain perception in contact sport athletes and to compile and understand how it is studied. The search strateg...
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Background The perception of effort provides information on task difficulty and influences physical exercise regulation and human behavior. This perception differs from other-exercise related perceptions such as pain. There is no consensus on the role of group III/IV muscle afferents as a signal processed by the brain to generate the perception of...
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Fatigue is a phenomenon with implications at the individual level, causing daily perturbations for each of us. Fatigue also has societal implications, as economic costs and death have each been attributed to fatigue. To be studied accurately, it is crucial to distinguish the term fatigue from related terms such as boredom or sleepiness. The termino...
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We compared neuromuscular fatigue induced by cycling at a fixed perceived effort in normoxic condition (NOR) and three purported hypoxia modalities: systemic hypoxia (SyH, FiO2 = 0.13), blood flow restriction (BFR, 50% arterial occlusion pressure) and airflow restriction mask (ARM, calibrated to ~3500 m). Seventeen healthy young participants cycled...
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Recent studies suggest a negative effect of acute smartphone use or video games on physical performances. This study examined the effect of alternating between video games and smartphone scrolling on social networks on subsequent muscle endurance performance and physical activity intention in young adults.Thirty-eight young adults (19±1 y.o.; 13 fe...
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Acute aerobic exercise (AEX) can enhance motor learning and promote neuroplasticity. However, the effect of AEX intensity on primary motor cortex (M1) excitability has not been systematically examined. Hence, the dose-response relationship between AEX intensity and M1 excitability modulation remains unclear. This study investigated the impact of AE...
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Chronic low back pain is a prevalent and debilitating condition that can be difficult to resolve. One effective approach is physical exercise training. This study investigates the hypothesis that exercise training normalizes immune-brain interactions that cause pain exacerbation and perpetuation. Fifty-seven participants with chronic low back pain...
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Motor learning is proposed to be associated with a minimization or optimization of physical and cognitive resources. Effort involves the voluntary investment of resources for task performance. While these two constructs are intrinsically linked, their relationship has never been empirically examined. This study aimed to investigate how the percepti...
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Recent studies suggest a negative effect of acute smartphone use or video games on decision-making, psychomotor and maximal force production performances. This study aimed to test the effect of alternating video games and smartphone scrolling on social networks on subsequent muscle endurance performance and physical activity intention in young adul...
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Recent studies suggest a negative effect of acute smartphone use or video games on physical performances. This study examined the effect of alternating between video games and smartphone scrolling on social networks on subsequent muscle endurance performance and physical activity intention in young adults.Thirty-eight young adults (19±1 y.o.; 13 fe...
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[This is the accepted version of the article] Fatigue is a phenomenon with implications at the individual level, causing daily perturbations for each of us. Fatigue also has societal implications, as economic costs and death have each been attributed to fatigue. To be studied accurately, it is crucial to distinguish the term fatigue from related t...
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Cycling, as a sport, demands not only physical prowess but also a profound understanding of the psychological factors that influence performance (Ouvrard et al., 2019). Among these factors, effort tolerance and pain management stand out as a crucial determinant of success in competitive cycling. The aim of the present study seeks to elucidate the d...
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Generally, pain invokes net inhibitive effects on motor command transmission (Chowdhury et al., 2022) and increases resource demand (Vogel et al., 2020). Thus, pain is expected to increase the perception of effort at a set task intensity (Norbury et al., 2022a) or reduce the perceived value to invest effort for continued task engagement (Richter et...
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Purpose The perception of effort exerts influence in determining task failure during endurance performance. Training interventions blending physical and cognitive tasks yielded promising results in enhancing performance. Motor imagery can decrease the perception of effort. Whether combining motor imagery and physical training improves endurance rem...
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Background: To limit exposures to occupational heat stress, leading occupational health and safety organizations recommend work–rest regimens to prevent core temperature from exceeding 38°C or increasing by ≥1°C. This scoping review aims to map existing knowledge of the effects of work–rest regimens in hot environments and to propose recommendation...
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Introduction Several studies in psychology provided compelling evidence that emotions significantly impact motor control. Yet, these evidences mostly rely on behavioral investigations, whereas the underlying neurophysiological processes remain poorly understood. Methods Using a classical paradigm in motor control, we tested the impact of affective...
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Smartphones are now in very widespread use, and concerns have arisen about potential detrimental effects, even with acute use. These adverse consequences are often linked to the emergence of mental fatigue. While the cognitive implications of fatigue are well-documented, knowledge about the specific influence of acute smartphone use on cognitive pe...
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Eccentric, compared to concentric exercise, is proposed to involve different neuro‐motor processing strategies and a higher level of mental demand. This study compared eccentric and concentric cycling at matched perceived effort and torque for the mental demand and related‐cortical activation patterns. Nineteen men (30 ± 6 years) performed four dif...
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Endurance sports require the sustained maintenance of high effort until the point of task failure. Psychological factors, particularly the perception of effort, exert considerable influence in determining task failure. Training interventions that blend physical and cognitive tasks yielded promising results in enhancing endurance performance. Motor...
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Exercise is an evidence-based treatment for depressive symptoms, yet it often requires specialised knowledge, equipment, or professional supervision. Lay people in certain contexts, for example in remote locations or under pandemic restrictions, often lack these resources and thus cannot use exercise to manage their depressive symptoms. We develope...
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The fatigue induced by fencing remains scarcely investigated. We aimed to investigate both objective (neuromuscular performance fatigability) and subjective (perceived fatigue, effort, and workload) manifestations of fatigue in elite fencers following a five‐bout simulated competition. Changes in countermovement jump height, knee extensors maximal...
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Introduction: Effort is the voluntary engagement of physical and cognitive resources to perform or attempt to perform in a task. According to the motivational intensity theory, effort directly influences performance. When task difficulty increases, effort should be increased to maintain performance. As pain is proposed to increase task demand, to m...
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The implementation of strategies to prevent mobility disability in seniors at-risk with a strong focus on exercise is a public health imperative. These strategies must follow a pragmatic, structured and personalized approach. In order to obtain short, medium and long-term benefits, it is essential to consider the coordination of adapted physical ex...
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PURPOSE: The perception of effort (PE) is widely used to prescribe and monitor exercise during locomotor and resistance tasks. The present study examines the validity of PE to prescribe and monitor exercise during upper-limb motor tasks under various loads and speed requirements. METHODS: Forty participants volunteered in two experiments. In exper...
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Affective response during physical activity can partly determine its adherence in adults with severe obesity living or not with a mental disorder. This study examined affective responses to physical activity in adults with severe obesity living or not with a mental disorder. Two groups (24 adults with severe obesity, body mass index = 44.4 kg/m², S...
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Background Recorded and live online physical exercise (PE) interventions are known to provide health benefits. However, the effects of prioritizing the number of live or recorded sessions remain unclear.AimsTo explore which recorded-live sessions ratio leads to the best implementation and benefits in older adults.Methods Forty-six community-dwellin...
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Several studies in psychology suggest that relationships exist between emotional context and motor control. Such a claim is based mainly on behavioral investigations whereas the underlying neurophysiological processes remain little known. Using a classical paradigm in motor control, we tested the impacts of viewing standardized affective pictures d...
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Perceptual-cognitive performance is fundamental for the anticipation and decision-making demands of open-skill sports. Therefore, disruption caused by fatigue can have important consequences for game outcomes. This scoping review aimed to describe what is known about the effects of fatigue on perceptual-cognitive performance among open-skill sport...
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Perceptual-cognitive performance is fundamental for the anticipation and decision-making demands of open-skill sports but may be disrupted by fatigue. This scoping review aimed to describe what is known about the effects of fatigue on perceptual-cognitive performance among open-skill sport athletes. Six databases were systematically searched. Artic...
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Eccentric, compared to concentric muscle contraction, is thought to be attributed to different strategies of neuro-motor processing and a higher level of mental demand. This study aimed to evaluate the mental demand and related-cortical activation patterns to eccentric and concentric cycling at matched perceived effort and torque. Nineteen healthy...
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The general objective of these reviews will be to assess the psychometric properties of the measures used for the assessment of rehabilitation technologies and related services. This general objective will answer following question: What is the quality of measures that were used to assess the usability (effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction) of r...
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Background: Periods of prolonged lockdown increase the risk of physical inactivity, which can contribute to physical decline among older adults. Online technology could be an innovative solution to promote physical activity habits in this context. The goal of this study was to examine and compare the acceptability, feasibility and potential benefi...
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This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to identify and quantify the current available evidence of hypnosis efficacy to manage pain in patients with chronic musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) with hypnosis and/or self-hypnosis treatment used to manage musculoskeletal and/or neuropathic chronic pain in adult...
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Purpose This study investigated the effect of ischemic preconditioning (IP) on metaboreflex activation following dynamic leg extension exercise in a group of healthy participants. Method Seventeen healthy participants were recruited. IP and SHAM treatments (3 × 5 min cuff occlusion at 220 mmHg or 20 mmHg, respectively) were administered in a rando...
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Contact sports athletes are regularly facing acute physical pain in part of their practice. However, the literature investigating pain perception in these athletes remains scarce. This scoping review aimed to explore the literature surrounding pain perception in contact sport athletes and to compile and understand how it is studied. The search stra...
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BACKGROUND: The perception of effort (PE) provides information on task difficulty and influences physical exercise regulation and human behavior. This perception differs from other-exercise related perceptions such as pain. There is no consensus on the role of group III-IV muscle afferents as a signal processed by the brain to generate PE. OBJECT...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face assessments were limited. Fortunately, older adults have access to web-technology (60%). Thus, we aimed to explore if assessing physical performance remotely is as reliable and valid as in person. At the end of the first lockdown, 15 older adults agreed to perform two similar evaluations in remote and face...
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PurposeFollowing a shortening or lengthening muscle contraction, torque produced in the isometric steady state is lower (residual torque depression; rTD) or higher (residual torque enhancement; rTE), respectively, compared to a purely isometric contraction at the same final muscle length and level of activation. This is referred to as the history d...
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Background Pain is a major public health concern in the aging population. However, medication brings about negative effects that compel healthcare professionals to seek alternative management techniques to alleviate pain. Hypnosis has been recognized as an effective technique to manage pain, but its long-term efficacy has yet to be examined in olde...
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The ego-depletion effect refers to a temporary failure of self-control exertion after first performing an effortful task. This phenomenon has experienced a replication crisis in the past few years. In the present series of experiments, we tried to replicate the ego-depletion effect using a 30-min modified Stroop task tapping two executive functions...
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PURPOSE: The perception of effort (PE) is widely used to prescribe and monitor exercise during locomotor and resistance tasks. The present study examines the validity of PE to prescribe and monitor exercise during upper-limb motor tasks under various loads and speed requirements.METHODS: Forty participants volunteered in two experiments. In experim...
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magine yourself walking to the gym in the rain after a long hard day at work. Picture yourself lifting heavy weights, even though you would prefer sitting on the sofa watching your favorite baseball team win a playoff match. This is just one sports-related example during which self-control processes enable us to keep striving for a desirable goalan...
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Physical training has shown benefits in pain management among patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), as it has improved pain severity, disability, quality of life, and physical and psychological functioning. However, there is limited empirical evidence examining how training is having such effects. The present study aimed to test the impact of...
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Purpose Following a shortening or lengthening muscle contraction, the torque produced in the isometric steady state is distinctly lower (residual torque depression; rTD) or higher (residual torque enhancement; rTE), respectively, compared to a purely isometric contraction at the same final muscle length and level of activation. This is referred to...
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Imagine yourself walking to the gym in the rain after a long hard day at work. Picture yourself lifting heavy weights, even though you would prefer sitting on the sofa watching your favorite baseball team win a playoff match. Envision a marathon runner who keeps pushing herself during the final miles of a run, trying to override her thoughts of qui...
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PURPOSE: Perceptions of effort (PE) and muscle pain (MP) influence performance and engagement in regular physical exercise. Literature-based standardized instructions describe PE as resulting from multiple sensory cues including “aches”. This description of PE creates a possible confound when PE and MP are being considered separately. This project...
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Mental fatigue is commonly observed when using the sequential task protocol. In this protocol, participants perform a first task that requires effortful control or that does not. Then, they have to perform a second task that systematically requires effortful control. Participants generally give up earlier the second task when they have exerted effo...
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Commentary on the Viewpoint: Time to Reconsider How Ventilation is Regulated above the Respiratory Compensation Point during Incremental Exercise" By Nicolò et al. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00814.2019
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Commentaries on Viewpoint by Nicolò et al., 2020 May 15: 1447-1449 : "Time to reconsider how ventilation is regulated above the respiratory compensation point during incremental exercise"
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Understanding neurophysiological functioning of eccentric (ECC) contractions is necessary when considering strategies for improving muscle strength to both sports performance and rehabilitation programs. Indeed, ECC contraction requires a lower energy consumption to develop the same amount of force compared to concentric (CON) contraction. At the s...
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Introduction : De nombreux travaux issus des sciences affectives et de la psychologie ont démontré l'existence de liens entre contexte émotionnel et paramètres du mouvement. Néanmoins, ceux-ci s'appuient majoritairement sur des mesures uniquement comportementales, si bien que les mécanismes neurophysiologiques sous-jacents restent encore très peu c...
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INTRODUCTION As muscle pain and effort are two exercise-related sensations involved in the regulation of endurance performance [1, 2], it is crucial to test the ability of humans to dissociate these two perceptions during physical exercise [3]. This study aimed to test the dissociation between PE and muscle pain during cycling exercise. We hypothes...
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PURPOSE: To describe the neuromuscular and perceptual responses to incline, decline or level treadmill exercise. METHODS: Fifteen healthy subjects performed on separate days 45 min treadmill exercise at 75% heart rate reserve in a level (+ 1% slope), incline (+ 15%) or decline condition (− 15%). Neuromuscular function of the knee extensors (KE)...
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INTRODUCTION: Motor Imagery (MI) is the mental simulation of action without concomitant movements. Recently, it has been shown that prolonged MI increases feeling of fatigue and impairs motor control, suggesting that MI may induce mental fatigue. The present study, which used electroencephalography (EEG), aims first at analyzing the changes in EEG-...
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This study aimed at evaluating the effects of mental and muscle fatigue on table tennis performance. Mental fatigue (MF) was induced by completion of 90 minutes of the AX-CPT; muscle fatigue was induced by completion of an eccentric exercise performed with the elbow flexors (biceps fatigue, BF) or the knee extensors (quadriceps fatigue, QF). The co...