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Physiological gradients and behavior.

Robert B. Malmo
- 01 Oct 1965 - 
- Vol. 64, Iss: 4, pp 225-234
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1965-10-01. It has received 86 citations till now.

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Reticulo-cortical activity and behavior: A critique of the arousal theory and a new synthesis

TL;DR: The fact that patterns characteristic of sleep, arousal, and waking behavior continue in decorticate animals indicates that reticulo-cortical mechanisms are not essential for these aspects of behavior.
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Motivational styles in everyday life: A guide to reversal theory.

TL;DR: Motivational Styles in Everyday Life as mentioned in this paper offers a definitive statement on reversal theory and sheds light on the paradoxes of risk taking, addiction, rebelliousness, and other areas of motivation, emotion, and personality.
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The Concept and Measurement of Mental Effort

TL;DR: The chapter will consider the ways in which the concept of effort has been used in different theories of human information processing, and focus on the physiological indices.
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Amplitude and bilateral coherency of facial and jaw-elevator EMG activity as an index of effort during a two-choice serial reaction task

TL;DR: Results are consistent with the notion that EMG amplitude of frontalis, corrugator, and orbicularis oris provides a sensitive index of the degree of exerted mental effort.
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