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Todd S. Braver

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Open access Sep 2026

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 willin...

Jennifer L. Crawford, Rachel E. Brough, Sarah A. Eisenstein et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations

Jul 2026

Toward Contemplative LLM: A Modular Framework for Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Alignment in Mental Health

Contemplative traditions have long guided ethical behavior and prosocial interaction, and recent work suggests that contemplative principles (e.g., mindfulness, compassion, non-dual reasoning) may offer a promising paradigm for aligning large language models (LLMs), improving cooperation and reducing ethical violations...

Asher Sprigler, Yang-Yang Feng, Iftach Amir et al. · arXiv.org · 0 citations