title: Formal models of "resource depletion".
abstract: The opportunity cost model (OCM) aims to explain various phenomena, among which the finding that performance degrades if executive functions are used repeatedly ("resource depletion"). We argue that an OCM account of resource depletion requires two unlikely assumptions, and we discuss an alternative that does not require these assumptions. This alternative model describes the interplay between executive function and motivation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 XA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. h.m.huizenga@uva.nl http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/h.m.huizenga/ m.w.vandermolen@gmail.com http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.w.vandermolen/ a.bexkens@uva.nl http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.bexkens/index.html w.p.m.vandenwildenberg@uva.nl http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/w.p.m.vandenwildenberg/
authors.forename: Hilde M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Huizenga
authors.forename: Maurits W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: van der Molen
authors.forename: Anika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bexkens
authors.forename: Wery P M
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: van den Wildenberg
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D005222:Mental Fatigue / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological