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Dr. Silveira studied how the brain allocates cognitive effort for lucrative outcomes. His work identified regions and neurotransmitters that bias organisms to put in mental effort for outcomes they want. Such work sheds light on how these processes may be disrupted in disorders characterized by blunted effort exertion, such as depression and schizophrenia.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) - graduated in 2018

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