Dalton de Lima-Junior, Ph.D.

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Research Focus and Interests 

• Mental Fatigue
• Sports Performance
• Sports Psychology

Selected Publications

• De Lima-Junior, D., Lopes, T. R., Fortes, L. D. S., Nakamura, F. Y., & Marcora, S. M. (2025). The cognitive era in sports performance: Mental fatigue, cognitive training, and psychological ergogenic substances. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1640470.
• Barbosa, B. T., De Lima-Junior, D., Moreira, A., Nakamura, F. Y., Batista, G. R., Faro, H., & Fortes, L. D. S. (2025). Mental fatigue and sleep restriction effects on perceptual-cognitive performance in trained beach volleyball athletes. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1537482. 
• De Lima-Junior, D., Caporaso, G., Cortesi, M., Fortes, L., & Marcora, S. M.  (2025). Effects of mental fatigue on perception of effort and performance in national level swimmers. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1–7.
• Soylu, Y., Arslan, E., Akçay, N., Akgul, M. S., Kilit, B., Lopes, T. R., & de Lima-Junior, D. (2025). Effects of mental fatigue on psychophysiological responses, kinematic variables and technical actions in small-sided soccer games: A time course analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1654701.
• De Lima-Junior, D., Gantois, P., Nakamura, F. Y., Marcora, S. M., Batista, G. R., Bartolomei, S., Ferreira, M. E. C., & Fortes, L. S. (2024). Mental fatigue impairs the number of repetitions to muscular failure in the half back-squat exercise for low- and mid- but not high-intensity resistance exercise. European Journal of Sport Science, 1, 1–10.
• De Lima-Junior, D., Silva, D. C., Ferreira, M. E. C., & Fortes, L. S. (2023). Effect of brain endurance training on maximal oxygen uptake, time-to-exhaustion, and inhibitory control in runners. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 1(1).
• Júnior, J. L. F. S., de Lima‐Junior, D., Nakamura, F. Y., Ferreira, M. E. C., & Fortes, L. D. S. (2026). High mental fatigue magnitude generates greater impaired resistance exercise performance than moderate mental fatigue magnitude in trained adults. European Journal of Sport Science, 26(2), e70128.
• Fortes, L. S., De Lima-Junior, D., Barbosa, B. T., Faro, H., Ferreira, M. E. C., & Almeida, S. S. (2022). Effect of mental fatigue on decision-making skill and visual search behaviour in basketball players: An experimental and randomised study. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1–20.
• Fortes, L. S., De Lima-Junior, D., Nascimento-Júnior, J. R. A., Costa, E. C., Matta, M. O., & Ferreira, M. E. C. (2019). Effect of exposure time to smartphone apps on passing decision-making in male soccer athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 44, 35–41.
• Faro, H., De Lima-Junior, D., & Machado, D. (2021). Rapid weight gain predicts fight success in mixed martial arts - evidence from 1,400 weigh-ins. European Journal of Sport Science, 1–30.
• Fortes, L. S., De Lima-Junior, D., Fiorese, L., Nascimento-Júnior, J. R. A., Mortatti, A. L., & Ferreira, M. E. C. (2020). The effect of smartphones and playing video games on decision-making in soccer players: A crossover and randomised study. Journal of Sports Sciences, 1–7.
• Solon-Júnior, L. J. F., Vieira da Silva Neto, L., De Lima-Junior, D., Costa, Y. P., Klinger da Silva Oliveira, J., Fiorese, L., & Fortes, L. S. (2024). Encephalapp Stroop: Validity and reliability of a smartphone app to measure cognitive performance in physically active subjects. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1, 1–6.