Human Anterior Cingulate Dynamics During Effortful Walking
Tyler Albarran, Camilla May, Kennedy Kerr, Kinsey Herrin, Jennifer Leestma, Taryn Harvey, Aaron Young, Greg Sawicki, Christopher Rozell, Sankar Alagapan · COSYNE 2025
The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has been studied extensively using effort-based decision-making (EBDM) paradigms and has been shown to track effort costs. However, it remains unclear whether the dACC encodes objective measures of effort, such as energy expenditure, or subjective perceptions of effort. Further, prior EBDM research in humans has focused on artificial, seated tasks like gripping hand dynamometers, which 1) do not accurately reflect real-world effort demands and 2) are limited by fMRI's temporal resolution, making it difficult to link neural activity to behavior. To
ePoster · Neuroscience