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    • Mental fatigue negatively impacts daily life and performance.
    • Physical exercise is known to benefit cognitive function, but neural mechanisms are unclear.
    • Understanding exercise's role in mental fatigue recovery is crucial.

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    • To investigate the restorative effects of physical exercise on mental fatigue.
    • To reveal the underlying neural mechanisms of exercise-induced fatigue recovery using EEG.
    • To compare brain functional connectivity (FC) changes with and without exercise intervention.

    Main Methods:

    • A two-session experiment comparing a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) with and without a 15-min cycling exercise.
    • Electroencephalography (EEG) data collected from 21 participants.
    • Quantitative assessment of EEG functional connectivity (FC) using graph theory and classification analysis.

    Main Results:

    • Exercise intervention significantly improved behavioral performance (reaction time, accuracy).
    • Altered network topology was observed in both sessions, but no significant differences between sessions.
    • Classification analysis revealed decreased FC and network efficiency, with distinct patterns between sessions, suggesting different processing strategies.

    Conclusions:

    • Physical exercise demonstrates a restorative effect on mental fatigue, impacting brain functional connectivity.
    • Distinct neural patterns emerge during exercise, indicating altered information processing strategies.
    • This research provides quantitative insights into the neural basis of exercise for fatigue recovery, paving the way for applications.