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Cognitive capacity limitations and Need for Cognition differentially predict reward-induced cognitive effort expenditure. Real-world unexpected outcomes predict city-level mood states and risk-taking behavior. The opportunity cost of time modulates cognitive effort. Forced Choices Reveal a Trade-Off between Cognitive Effort and Physical Pain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2), 306–313. It’s all relative: Reward-induced cognitive control modulation depends on context. Task-evoked pupillary responses track effort exertion: Evidence from task-switching. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(3), 592–606. Psychological Science, 32(9), 1463–1475.ĭa Silva Castanheira, K., LoParco, S., & Otto, A. Acute psychosocial stress increases cognitive effort avoidance. Selected References:īogdanov, M., Nitschke, J.P., LoParco, S., Bartz, J.A., & Otto, A.R. For example, how does an individual’s reliance upon reflective versus reflexive choice vary situationally based on factors like availability of cognitive resources, stress, time pressure, or perceived costs and benefits? Why might individuals differ, dispositionally, in their reliance upon reflective versus reflexive choices? To answer these questions, we use a combination of computational, behavioral, and psychophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques.
My research investigates why we sometimes rely on slow and effortful choices, while at other times we rely on fast and reflexive choice. Why do we sometimes rely on slow, deliberative, and effortful choices, while at other times we rely on fast, habitual, and reflexive choice? On one hand, making the best possible decision is effortful and time-consuming, but on the other hand, the benefits resulting from deliberative behavior may be small relative to its cost. Behavioral Neuroscience | Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Research Summary: