Effort and Appetitive Responding in Depression: Examining Deficits in Motivational and Consummatory Stages of Reward Processing Using the Effort-Doors Task

Reward sensitivity is a dimensional construct central to understanding the nature of depression. Psychophysiological research on this construct has primarily focused on the reward positivity, an event-related potential (ERP) that indexes consummatory reward sensitivity. This study extended prior research by focusing on ERPs that index the motivational component of reward. ; Anticipation (artificial intelligence), Stimulus (psychology), Depression, Reward system, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes ; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs||Google||U.S. Army||National Institute of Mental Health||Army Research Laboratory