Caudate dopamine predicts cognitive effort decisions both in the lab and daily life
Making choices about whether and when to engage cognitive effort is a common feature of human everyday experience with important consequences for academic, career, and health outcomes. Yet, despite its importance, little is understood about the neurochemical mechanisms that underlie individual differences in the willingness to engage in cognitively effortful activities. To examine this question,…
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