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Sep 2026
Been around the block: The sustained influence of efficacy on cognitive effort allocation over time
Modern accounts of cognitive effort posit that it is actively controlled based on a cost-benefit analysis, integrating (subjective) costs and possible rewards, which is furthermore moderated by efficacy (i.e., whether there is a clear relationship between successful task performance and reward). Although there is...
Willem Jacob Louter, S. T. Steendam, Nicoleta Prutean et al.
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