Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation

oleh: R. Frömer, H. Lin, C. K. Dean Wolf, M. Inzlicht, A. Shenhav

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01

Deskripsi

People only exert cognitive effort if they think the benefits outweigh the costs. Here, the authors show that people assess these benefits by considering expected rewards and how much their effort matters for obtaining those rewards, and then integrating these to determine how much effort to exert.