The Cost of Imagined Actions in a Reward-Valuation Task

Growing evidence suggests that humans and other animals assign value to a stimulus based not only on its inherent rewarding properties, but also on the costs of the action required to obtain it, such as the cost of time. Here, we examined whether such cost also occurs for mentally simulated actions....

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Main Authors: Manuela Sellitto, Damiano Terenzi, Francesca Starita, Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Simone Battaglia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/5/582