Self-Regulatory Capacities Are Depleted in a Domain-Specific Manner

Performing an act of self-regulation such as making decisions has been suggested to deplete a common limited resource, which impairs all subsequent self-regulatory actions (ego depletion theory). It has however remained unclear whether self-referred decisions truly impair behavioral control even in...

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Main Authors: Rui Zhang, Ann-Kathrin Stock, Anneka Rzepus, Christian Beste
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsys.2017.00070/full