title: The intrinsic cost of cognitive control.
abstract: Kurzban and colleagues carry forward an important contemporary movement in cognitive control research, tending away from resource-based models and toward a framework focusing on motivation or value. However, their specific proposal, centering on opportunity costs, appears problematic. We favor a simpler view, according to which the exertion of cognitive control carries intrinsic subjective costs.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. wkool@princeton.edu www.wouterkool.com matthewb@princeton.edu www.princeton.edu/~matthewb.
authors.forename: Wouter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kool
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Botvinick
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological