Effort Expenditure for Reward Task

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Treadway MT, Buckholtz JW, Schwartzman AN, Lambert WE, Zald DH (2009) Worth the ‘EEfRT’? The Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task as an Objective Measure of Motivation and Anhedonia. PLoS ONE 4(8): e6598. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006598

Wardle, M., Treadway, M., & De Wit, H. (2012). Caffeine increases psychomotor performance on the effort expenditure for rewards task. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 102(4), 526-31.

Barch, D., Treadway, M., Schoen, N., & Goodman, Sherryl. (2014). Effort, Anhedonia, and Function in Schizophrenia: Reduced Effort Allocation Predicts Amotivation and Functional Impairment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123(2), 387-397.

Hughes, D., Yates, M., Morton, E., & Smillie, L. (2015). Asymmetric frontal cortical activity predicts effort expenditure for reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(7), 1015-1019.

Treadway, M., Peterman, J., Zald, D., & Park, S. (2015). Impaired effort allocation in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 161(2-3), 382-5.

Lopez-Gamundi, P & Wardle, MC (2018). The cognitive effort expenditure for rewards task (C-EEfRT): A novel measure of willingness to expend cognitive effort. Psychol Assess, Sep;30(9):1237-1248. doi: 10.1037/pas0000563. Epub 2018 Apr 5. PMID: 29620381.

Horne, S. J., Topp, T. E., & Quigley, L. (2021). Depression and the willingness to expend cognitive and physical effort for rewards: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 88, Article 102065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102065

Webber, H. E., Lopez-Gamundi, P., Stamatovich, S. N., de Wit, H., & Wardle, M. C. (2021). Using pharmacological manipulations to study the role of dopamine in human reward functioning: A review of studies in healthy adults. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 120, 123–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.004