Cognitive Effort Exertion Enhances Electrophysiological Responses to Rewarding Outcomes

The effort-doors task: Examining the temporal dynamics of effort-based reward processing using ERPs

(2021) Colin Bowyer et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance

(2021) Mario Bogdanov et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

(2020) Pauli Virtanen et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Effect of Perceived Effort and Perceived Control on Reward Valuation: Using the Reward Positivity to Test a Dissonance Theory Prediction

(2020) Eddie Harmon-Jones et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

The Effect of Perceived Effort on Reward Valuation: Taking the Reward Positivity (RewP) to Dissonance Theory

(2020) Eddie Harmon-Jones et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work

(2020) A. Westbrook et al.   SCIENCE

Losses Motivate Cognitive Effort More Than Gains in Effort-Based Decision Making and Performance

(2020) Stijn A. A. Massar et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Causal role of lateral prefrontal cortex in mental effort and fatigue

(2020) Alexander Soutschek et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Risk and Resilience in an Acute Stress Paradigm: Evidence From Salivary Cortisol and Time-Frequency Analysis of the Reward Positivity

(2020) Paige Ethridge et al.   Clinical Psychological Science

Task-evoked pupillary responses track effort exertion: Evidence from task-switching

(2020) Kevin da Silva Castanheira et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Methylphenidate boosts choices of mental labor over leisure depending on striatal dopamine synthesis capacity

(2020) Lieke Hofmans et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Forced choices reveal a trade-off between cognitive effort and physical pain

(2020) Todd A Vogel et al.   eLife

The Subjective Value of Cognitive Effort is Encoded by a Domain-General Valuation Network

(2019) Andrew Westbrook et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Decomposing the effort paradox in reward processing: Time matters

(2019) Wei Yi et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Brain Stimulation Over the Frontopolar Cortex Enhances Motivation to Exert Effort for Reward

(2018) Alexander Soutschek et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Psychometric properties of neural responses to monetary and social rewards across development

(2018) Paige Ethridge et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Neuroscience of apathy and anhedonia: a transdiagnostic approach

(2018) Masud Husain et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

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

(2018) Davide Gheza et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The opportunity cost of time modulates cognitive effort

(2018) A. Ross Otto et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Sleep deprivation increases the costs of attentional effort: Performance, preference and pupil size

(2018) Stijn A.A. Massar et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Electrophysiological indices of anterior cingulate cortex function reveal changing levels of cognitive effort and reward valuation that sustain task performance

(2018) Akina Umemoto et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Effects of reward context on feedback processing as indexed by time-frequency analysis

(2018) Adreanna T. M. Watts et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued

(2018) Michael Inzlicht et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Sensitivity to “sunk costs” in mice, rats, and humans

(2018) Brian M. Sweis et al.   SCIENCE

Computational modelling reveals distinct patterns of cognitive and physical motivation in elite athletes

(2018) Trevor T.-J. Chong et al.   Scientific Reports

Dopamine restores cognitive motivation in Parkinson’s disease

(2018) Sara McGuigan et al.   BRAIN

Effort-Based Reinforcement Processing and Functional Connectivity Underlying Amotivation in Medicated Patients with Depression and Schizophrenia

(2017) Il Ho Park et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Modulation of ventral striatal activity by cognitive effort

(2017) Ekaterina Dobryakova et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The anatomy of apathy: A neurocognitive framework for amotivated behaviour

(2017) C. Le Heron et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying subjective valuation of effort costs

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

How to get statistically significant effects in any ERP experiment (and why you shouldn't)

(2016) Steven J. Luck et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Motivation and Cognitive Control: From Behavior to Neural Mechanism

(2015) Matthew Botvinick et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

The impact of cognitive load on reward evaluation

(2015) Olave E. Krigolson et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Anterior cingulate activity to monetary loss and basal ganglia activity to monetary gain uniquely contribute to the feedback negativity

(2015) Dan Foti et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach

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

Dopamine enhances willingness to exert effort for reward in Parkinson's disease

(2015) Trevor T.-J. Chong et al.   CORTEX

Separate and overlapping brain areas encode subjective value during delay and effort discounting

(2015) Stijn A.A. Massar et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Time-frequency theta and delta measures index separable components of feedback processing in a gambling task

(2015) Edward M. Bernat et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Behavioral Modeling of Human Choices Reveals Dissociable Effects of Physical Effort and Temporal Delay on Reward Devaluation

(2015) Miriam C. Klein-Flügge et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Show me the Money: The impact of actual rewards and losses on the feedback negativity

(2014) Anna Weinberg et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Overlapping Neural Systems Represent Cognitive Effort and Reward Anticipation

(2014) Eliana Vassena et al.   PLoS One

The reward positivity: From basic research on reward to a biomarker for depression

(2014) Greg Hajcak Proudfit   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

I endeavor to make it: Effort increases valuation of subsequent monetary reward

(2013) Qingguo Ma et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

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

(2013) Amitai Shenhav et al.   NEURON

Neural and Behavioral Evidence for an Intrinsic Cost of Self-Control

(2013) Wouter Kool et al.   PLoS One

What Is the Subjective Cost of Cognitive Effort? Load, Trait, and Aging Effects Revealed by Economic Preference

(2013) Andrew Westbrook et al.   PLoS One

Better late than never? The effect of feedback delay on ERP indices of reward processing

(2012) Anna Weinberg et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Human Effort-Based Decision-Making

(2012) M. T. Treadway et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Blunted neural response to rewards prospectively predicts depression in adolescent girls

(2012) Jennifer N. Bress et al.   PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

Effort increases sensitivity to reward and loss magnitude in the human brain

(2012) Julen Hernandez Lallement et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Development and validation of a 30-item short adaptation of the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (MASQ)

(2010) Klaas J. Wardenaar et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Effort discounting in human nucleus accumbens

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

Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning

(2009) Kent C Berridge et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY

Effort-Based Cost-Benefit Valuation and the Human Brain

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

Context-dependent utility overrides absolute memory as a determinant of choice

(2009) L. Pompilio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA