Michel Audiffren

Training Willpower: Reducing Costs and Valuing Effort

Frontiers in Neuroscience April 28, 2022 Michel Audiffren, Nathalie André, Roy F. Baumeister

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...