ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2023
Worth the Work? Monkeys Discount Rewards by a Subjective Adapting Effort Cost.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Neural substrates underlying the expectation of rewards resulting from effortful exertion.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Experimental manipulation of ecological and cognitive conditions produces the entire conformity-diversity spectrum in a single species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition in social decision-making.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
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All life must solve how to allocate limited energy resources to maximize benefits from scarce opportunities. Economic theory posits decision makers optimize choice by maximizing the subjective benefit (utility) of reward minus the subjective cost (disutility) of the required effort. While successful in many settings, this model does not fully account for how experience can alter reward-effort trade-offs. Here, we test how well the subtractive model of effort disutility explains the behavior of two male nonhuman primates (
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