… psychological process and neural mechanism, examining both the limitations to mental effort
exertion … remaining challenges for theoretical accounts of mental effort as well as possible …

… -making, considering this neglected side of effort will not only improve formal computational
models, but also provide clues about how to promote sustained mental effort across time. …

… To the contrary, we argue that the worth of mechanistic accounts lies in these considerations
and that consequent deviations from rationality (even ostensibly minor ones) can lead to …

… To judge from such locutions, it appears that we associate mental effort … of mental effort in
economic terms. In scientific research on mental effort, there has been a growing trend towards …

… Cognitive effort is also implicated in more mechanistic accounts. The balance between
model-free (habitual) and model-based control of behavior, for example, may be partly …

… conservation—that is, the human inclination to find ways of avoiding mental exertion. … ,
we have not yet identified a precise physiological mechanism for mental-effort exertion. Some …

… value to mental effort. The results challenge currently dominant theories of mental effort and
… harness the here-described learning mechanism and promote intrinsic effort motivation [eg, …

… such as efforts of will, efforts of attention? One way to generalize the model is … mental forces,
so as to equate mental efforts with the exercise of mental forces against some other mental …

… recent efforts toward … mental effort. This model functionally decomposes this cost-benefit
analysis and has been used to fill gaps in understanding of the mechanisms of mental effort and …

… mental fatigue on real-world human performance. Previous research has identified several
neurocognitive indices of mental effort… mental effort based in theories where bounded rational …