| Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach A Westbrook, TS Braver Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 15 (2), 395-415, 2015 | 769 | 2015 |
| What is the subjective cost of cognitive effort? Load, trait, and aging effects revealed by economic preference A Westbrook, D Kester, TS Braver PloS one 8 (7), e68210, 2013 | 706 | 2013 |
| Mechanisms of motivation–cognition interaction: challenges and opportunities TS Braver, MK Krug, KS Chiew, W Kool, A Westbrook, NJ Clement, ... Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 14 (2), 443-472, 2014 | 598 | 2014 |
| Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work A Westbrook, R Van Den Bosch, JI Määttä, L Hofmans, D Papadopetraki, ... Science 367 (6484), 1362-1366, 2020 | 398 | 2020 |
| Dopamine does double duty in motivating cognitive effort A Westbrook, TS Braver Neuron 89 (4), 695-710, 2016 | 376 | 2016 |
| The subjective value of cognitive effort is encoded by a domain-general valuation network A Westbrook, B Lamichhane, T Braver Journal of Neuroscience 39 (20), 3934-3947, 2019 | 173 | 2019 |
| Reduced model-based decision-making in schizophrenia AJ Culbreth, A Westbrook, ND Daw, M Botvinick, DM Barch Journal of abnormal psychology 125 (6), 777, 2016 | 137 | 2016 |
| Exploring brain-behavior relationships in the N-back task B Lamichhane, A Westbrook, MW Cole, TS Braver NeuroImage 212, 116683, 2020 | 134 | 2020 |
| Negative symptoms are associated with an increased subjective cost of cognitive effort A Culbreth*, A Westbrook*, D Barch Journal of abnormal psychology 125 (4), 528, 2016 | 130 | 2016 |
| Intertemporal Decision-Making Involves Prefrontal Control Mechanisms Associated with Working Memory K Jimura, M Chushack, A Westbrook, TS Braver Cerebral Cortex, 1-12, 2017 | 94 | 2017 |
| A mosaic of cost–benefit control over cortico-striatal circuitry A Westbrook, MJ Frank, R Cools Trends in Cognitive Sciences 25 (8), 710-721, 2021 | 92 | 2021 |
| Effort, avolition, and motivational experience in schizophrenia: analysis of behavioral and neuroimaging data with relationships to daily motivational experience AJ Culbreth, EK Moran, S Kandala, A Westbrook, DM Barch Clinical Psychological Science 8 (3), 555-568, 2020 | 65 | 2020 |
| Dopamine and proximity in motivation and cognitive control A Westbrook, M Frank Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 22, 28-34, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
| Intact ventral striatal prediction error signaling in medicated schizophrenia patients AJ Culbreth, A Westbrook, Z Xu, DM Barch, JA Waltz Biological psychiatry: cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 1 (5), 474-483, 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
| Abnormal cognitive effort allocation and its association with amotivation in first-episode psychosis WC Chang*, A Westbrook*, GP Strauss, AOK Chu, CSY Chong, CMW Siu, ... Psychological Medicine, 1-11, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| An experimental manipulation of the value of effort H Lin, A Westbrook, F Fan, M Inzlicht Nature Human Behaviour 8 (5), 988-1000, 2024 | 48 | 2024 |
| Striatal dopamine synthesis capacity reflects smartphone social activity A Westbrook, A Ghosh, R van den Bosch, JI Määttä, L Hofmans, R Cools IScience 24 (5), 2021 | 48 | 2021 |
| Methylphenidate boosts choices of mental labor over leisure depending on striatal dopamine synthesis capacity L Hofmans, D Papadopetraki, R van den Bosch, JI Määttä, MI Froböse, ... Neuropsychopharmacology 45 (13), 2170-2179, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
| Economic choice and heart rate fractal scaling indicate that cognitive effort is reduced by depression and boosted by sad mood A Westbrook, X Yang, LM Bylsma, S Daches, CJ George, AJ Seidman, ... Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 8 (7), 687-694, 2023 | 36 | 2023 |
| Rate of chloramine decay at pipe surfaces A Westbrook, FA Digiano Journal‐American Water Works Association 101 (7), 59-70, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
Todd S. BraverProfessor of Psychology, Washington University, Saint LouisVerified email at wustl.edu
