2024
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012060
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Wagers for work: Decomposing the costs of cognitive effort

Sarah L. Master,
Clayton E. Curtis,
Peter Dayan

Abstract: Some aspects of cognition are more taxing than others. Accordingly, many people will avoid cognitively demanding tasks in favor of simpler alternatives. Which components of these tasks are costly, and how much, remains unknown. Here, we use a novel task design in which subjects request wages for completing cognitive tasks and a computational modeling procedure that decomposes their wages into the costs driving them. Using working memory as a test case, our approach revealed that gating new information into mem… Show more

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