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Mid-luteal phase progesterone effects on vigilance tasks are modulated by women’s chronotype

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dc.contributor.authorPalmero Jara, Lucía Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorTortajada Gomariz, Miriam
dc.contributor.authorCampoy Menéndez, Guillermo
dc.contributor.authorFuentes Melero, Luis José
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Pérez, Víctor
dc.contributor.departmentPsicología Básica y Metodología
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-14T06:53:59Z
dc.date.available2026-01-14T06:53:59Z
dc.date.copyright© 2022 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued2022-03-12
dc.description.abstractBackground In this study we assessed the effects of progesterone on vigilance tasks that require sustained attention. In contrast to previous research, we differentiated two components of vigilance: the exogenous component, involved in monotonous and tedious tasks such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT); and the endogenous component, involved in tasks that require cognitive control such as the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART). Methods A sample of 32 female participants differing in extreme chronotypes were tested at their optimal and non-optimal time-of-day, as secretion of sex hormones follows biological rhythms. Ovulation tests that measure the presence of luteinizing hormone (LH) in urine were used to minimize methodological errors. Women of Morning-type or Evening-type chronotypes completed 4 experimental sessions of the two attentional tasks when they were in their follicular (low progesterone level) and mid-luteal (high progesterone level) phases, both in the morning (8:00 AM) and the evening (8:30 PM). Results Compared with the follicular phase, performance in the mid-luteal phase improved in the Morning-type participants and worsened in the Evening-type participants. This pattern of results was observed only when testing occurred at the optimal time-of-day and with both the PVT and the SART tasks. Conclusion These results suggest that the simultaneous presence of both progesterone and cortisol at 8:00 AM may explain the benefit observed in Morning-type females. In contrast, the low concentration of cortisol along with the reduced benefit of mid-luteal phase progesterone in the evening may account for the worsening in performance observed in Evening-type females.
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dc.identifier.citationPsychoneuroendocrinology, 2022, Vol. 140 : 105722
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105722
dc.identifier.eissn1873-3360
dc.identifier.issn0306-4530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/186469
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationThis work was supported by grant PSI2017-84556-P funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033) and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, and predoctoral grants: FPU17/00427, FPU18/00288, and FPU19/06017.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453022000634This work was supported by grant PSI2017-84556-P funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033) and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, and predoctoral grants: FPU17/00427, FPU18/00288, and FPU19/06017.
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dc.subjectMenstrual cycle
dc.subjectMid luteal phase
dc.subjectCircadian rhythms
dc.subjectChronotype
dc.subjectVigilance tasksMenstrual cycleMid-luteal phaseCircadian rhythmsChronotype
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleMid-luteal phase progesterone effects on vigilance tasks are modulated by women’s chronotype
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