Cognitive effort and amotivation in first-episode psychosis.

Impaired cognition and amotivation are considered core features of psychotic disorders. Amotivation may manifest as reduced willingness to expend effort on cognitive tasks. It remains unclear whether reduced effort is responsible for any of the observed cognitive deficits in these patients, as we do not generally assess continuous effort during testing. In the current study, we tested whether disengagement of effort is greater during cognitive...