Mental Effort and Information-Processing Costs Are Inversely Related to Global Brain Free Energy During Visual Categorization
Mental effort is a neurocognitive process that reflects the controlled expenditure of psychological information-processing resources during perception, cognition, and action. There is a practical need to operationalize and measure mental effort in order to minimize detrimental effects of mental fati...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2019.01292/full |