Training Willpower: Reducing Costs and Valuing Effort.

ABSTRACT: The integrative model of effortful control presented in a previous article aimed to specify the neurophysiological bases of mental effort. This model assumes that effort reflects three different inter-related aspects of the same adaptive function. First, a mechanism anchored in the salience network that makes decisions about the effort that should be engaged in the current task in view of costs and benefits associated with the achievement of the task goal. Second, a top-down control signal generated by the mechanism of effort that modulates neuronal activity in brain regions involved in the current task to filter pertinent information. Third, a feeling that emerges in awareness during effortful tasks and reflects the costs associated with goal-directed behavior. The aim of the present arti

SUBMITTER: Audiffren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9095966 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature