A Systematic Review on the Effect of Cognitive Fatigue in Teams

Teaming scenarios are beneficial for many complex tasks but can also encounter many challenges such as appropriate communication, coordinating with teammates, or fatigue. Cognitive fatigue has many negative effects on individuals such as impaired decision-making, reduced attention, and slower reaction times. This systematic literature review reports findings from 17 total articles on the effect of cognitive fatigue in teams. The review searched articles published from January 2016 to November 2023. The key findings suggest that cognitive fatigue significantly increases reaction time, increases the number of errors, and decreases the number of positive outcomes. To conclude, this study discusses potential implications of these findings to relevant domains, how they could relate to human-autonomy teams, and directions for future research.