Decomposing the motivation to exert mental effort. [PDF]
Curr Dir Psychol Sci, 2021 Achieving most goals demands cognitive control, yet people vary widely in their success at meeting these demands. Although motivation is known to be fundamental to determining success at achieving a goal, what determines motivation to perform a given task remains poorly understood. Here, we describe recent efforts toward addressing this question using
Shenhav A, Fahey MP, Grahek I.
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Decoding Mental Effort in a Quasi-Realistic Scenario: A Feasibility Study on Multimodal Data Fusion and Classification [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Humans’ performance varies due to the mental resources that are available to successfully pursue a task. To monitor users’ current cognitive resources in naturalistic scenarios, it is essential to not only measure demands induced by the task itself but ...
Sabrina Gado +3 more
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Toward Mental Effort Measurement Using Electrodermal Activity Features [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 The ability to monitor mental effort during a task using a wearable sensor may improve productivity for both work and study. The use of the electrodermal activity (EDA) signal for tracking mental effort is an emerging area of research.
William Romine +3 more
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Musical and Bodily Predictors of Mental Effort in String Quartet Music: An Ecological Pupillometry Study of Performers and Listeners [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Music performance can be cognitively and physically demanding. These demands vary across the course of a performance as the content of the music changes.
Laura Bishop +5 more
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Linking air pollution appraisal to EFL teachers' negative emotion via mental effort: the moderating role of working memory capacity [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBased on Cognitive Load Theory, this study developed a moderated mediation model to examine the relationship between English as foreign language (EFL) teachers' air pollution appraisal and negative emotions.
Yijun Shi, Shuhua Wang, Qi Hao
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Mental Effort and Information-Processing Costs Are Inversely Related to Global Brain Free Energy During Visual Categorization [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Mental effort is a neurocognitive process that reflects the controlled expenditure of psychological information-processing resources during perception, cognition, and action.
Logan T. Trujillo
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Comparing written and photo-based indoor wayfinding instructions through eye fixation measures and user ratings as mental effort assessments. [PDF]
J Eye Mov Res, 2019 The use of mobile pedestrian wayfinding applications is gaining importance indoors. However, compared to outdoors, much less research has been conducted with respect to the most adequate ways to convey indoor wayfinding information to a user.
De Cock L +7 more
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Measuring Mental Effort in Real Time Using Pupillometry [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement ResearchMental effort, a critical factor influencing task performance, is often difficult to measure accurately and efficiently. Pupil diameter has emerged as a reliable, real-time indicator of mental effort.
Gavindya Jayawardena +2 more
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The transdiagnostic structure of mental effort avoidance. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractThe law of least mental effort states that, everything else being equal, the brain tries to minimize mental effort expenditure during task performance by avoiding decisions that require greater cognitive demands. Prior studies have shown associations between disruptions in effort expenditure and specific psychiatric illnesses (e.g ...
Patzelt EH +3 more
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A Pilot Study of Behavioral, Physiological, and Subjective Responses to Varying Mental Effort Requirements in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is presumed to involve mental effort application difficulties. To test this assumption, we manipulated task difficulty and measured behavioral, as well as subjective and psychophysiological ...
Gabry W. Mies +10 more
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