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2008 • 431 citations

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2009 • 414 citations

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2006 • 236 citations

Dissociable cost and benefit encoding of future rewards by mesolimbic dopamine

2009 • 232 citations

Phasic Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Release Encodes Effort- and Delay-Related Costs

2010 • 153 citations

Delays Conferred by Escalating Costs Modulate Dopamine Release to Rewards But Not Their Predictors

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Subjective neuronal coding of reward: temporal value discounting and risk

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Preference for rewards that follow greater effort and greater delay

2008 • 50 citations

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2007 • 48 citations