Task-specific prioritization of reward and effort information: Novel insights from behavior and computational modeling

Integration of reward with cost anticipation during performance monitoring revealed by ERPs and EEG spectral perturbations

(2018) Davide Gheza et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Anticipation of a mentally effortful task recruits Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex: An fNIRS validation study

(2018) Eliana Vassena et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Frontal cortex function as derived from hierarchical predictive coding

(2018) William H. Alexander et al.   Scientific Reports

Dorsal anterior cingulate-brainstem ensemble as a reinforcement meta-learner

(2018) Massimo Silvetti et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Predicting Motivation: Computational Models of PFC Can Explain Neural Coding of Motivation and Effort-based Decision-making in Health and Disease

(2017) Eliana Vassena et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Integrative Modeling of Prefrontal Cortex

(2017) William H. Alexander et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying subjective valuation of effort costs

(2017) Trevor T.-J. Chong et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Computational Models of Anterior Cingulate Cortex: At the Crossroads between Prediction and Effort

(2017) Eliana Vassena et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Do depressive symptoms “blunt” effort? An analysis of cardiac engagement and withdrawal for an increasingly difficult task

(2016) Paul J. Silvia et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Diminished effort on a progressive ratio task in both unipolar and bipolar depression

(2016) Rachel Hershenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Reward favors the prepared: Incentive and task-informative cues interact to enhance attentional control.

(2016) Kimberly S. Chiew et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Inefficient effort allocation and negative symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia

(2016) Julie M. McCarthy et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach

(2015) Andrew Westbrook et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Noradrenaline and Dopamine Neurons in the Reward/Effort Trade-Off: A Direct Electrophysiological Comparison in Behaving Monkeys

(2015) C. Varazzani et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Hierarchical Error Representation: A Computational Model of Anterior Cingulate and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

(2015) William H. Alexander et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Unsigned value prediction-error modulates the motor system in absence of choice

(2015) Eliana Vassena et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The role of cognitive effort in subjective reward devaluation and risky decision-making

(2015) Matthew A J Apps et al.   Scientific Reports

Adaptive effort investment in cognitive and physical tasks: a neurocomputational model

(2015) Tom Verguts et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Reward prospect rapidly speeds up response inhibition via reactive control

(2014) Carsten N. Boehler et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Reward anticipation enhances brain activation during response inhibition

(2014) Patricia Rosell-Negre et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Utilization of reward-prospect enhances preparatory attention and reduces stimulus conflict

(2014) Berry van den Berg et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus Signals the Net Value of Others' Rewards

(2014) M. A. J. Apps et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Computations Underlying Arbitration between Model-Based and Model-free Learning

(2014) Sang Wan Lee et al.   NEURON

The problem with value

(2014) John P. O’Doherty   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

An evolutionary computational theory of prefrontal executive function in decision-making

(2014) E. Koechlin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Overlapping Neural Systems Represent Cognitive Effort and Reward Anticipation

(2014) Eliana Vassena et al.   PLoS One

Motivational deficits in effort-based decision making in individuals with subsyndromal depression, first-episode and remitted depression patients

(2014) Xin-hua Yang et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Effort and Valuation in the Brain: The Effects of Anticipation and Execution

(2013) I. T. Kurniawan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Task preparation processes related to reward prediction precede those related to task-difficulty expectation

(2013) Hanne Schevernels et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function

(2013) Amitai Shenhav et al.   NEURON

Valuation and decision-making in frontal cortex: one or many serial or parallel systems?

(2012) Matthew FS Rushworth et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

How much of reinforcement learning is working memory, not reinforcement learning? A behavioral, computational, and neurogenetic analysis

(2012) Anne G. E. Collins et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Implicit affect primes effort: A theory and research on cardiovascular response

(2012) Guido H.E. Gendolla   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Neural Mechanisms of Foraging

(2012) N. Kolling et al.   SCIENCE

The variable nature of cognitive control: a dual mechanisms framework

(2012) Todd S. Braver   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Involvement of the Dopaminergic Midbrain and Cortico-Striatal-Thalamic Circuits in the Integration of Reward Prospect and Attentional Task Demands

(2011) R. M. Krebs et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neural computations associated with goal-directed choice

(2010) Antonio Rangel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Attentional Control in Anterior Cingulate Cortex Based on Probabilistic Cueing

(2010) Esther Aarts et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Frontal Cortex and the Discovery of Abstract Action Rules

(2010) David Badre et al.   NEURON

States versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Prediction Error Signals Underlying Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

(2010) Jan Gläscher et al.   NEURON

Prefrontal cortex, cognitive control, and the registration of decision costs

(2010) Joseph T. McGuire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Within-subject differences in degree of delay discounting as a function of order of presentation of hypothetical cash rewards

(2009) Elias Robles et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Effort discounting in human nucleus accumbens

(2009) M. M. Botvinick et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The joint effect of mood, task valence, and task difficulty on effort-related cardiovascular response and facial EMG

(2009) Nicolas Silvestrini et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Effort-Based Cost-Benefit Valuation and the Human Brain

(2009) P. L. Croxson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Motivational influences on cognitive control: Behavior, brain activation, and individual differences

(2008) H. S. LOCKE et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Choice, uncertainty and value in prefrontal and cingulate cortex

(2008) Matthew F S Rushworth et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making

(2008) Antonio Rangel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Cognitive control, hierarchy, and the rostro–caudal organization of the frontal lobes

(2008) David Badre   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Hierarchical models of behavior and prefrontal function

(2008) Matthew M. Botvinick   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES