Andrew Westbrook

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Andrew Westbrook is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Westbrook has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in General Decision Sciences and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Andrew Westbrook's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Andrew Westbrook is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (7 papers). Andrew Westbrook collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Andrew Westbrook's co-authors include Todd S. Braver, Michael J. Frank, Roshan Cools, Adam J. Culbreth, Bidhan Lamichhane, Ruben van den Bosch, Lieke Hofmans, Jessica I. Määttä, Deanna M. Barch and Danae Papadopetraki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Westbrook

33 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach

2015 372 citations Andrew Westbrook, Todd S. Braver Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Westbrook United States	18	1.1k	478	341	304	282	34	1.8k
Koji Jimura Japan	25	2.1k 1.8×	526 1.1×	257 0.8×	282 0.9×	217 0.8×	64	2.6k
Maël Lebreton France	20	1.3k 1.2×	389 0.8×	338 1.0×	162 0.5×	161 0.6×	40	1.9k
Adrian R. Willoughby United States	17	1.8k 1.6×	736 1.5×	297 0.9×	219 0.7×	172 0.6×	31	2.5k
Liane Schmidt France	17	1.2k 1.0×	287 0.6×	128 0.4×	175 0.6×	199 0.7×	27	1.8k
Tom Schönberg Israel	19	1.1k 1.0×	353 0.7×	284 0.8×	276 0.9×	101 0.4×	41	1.7k
Soyoung Q. Park Germany	25	1.6k 1.4×	620 1.3×	189 0.6×	228 0.8×	247 0.9×	63	2.6k
Ruth M. Krebs Belgium	32	2.6k 2.2×	621 1.3×	226 0.7×	248 0.8×	344 1.2×	78	3.2k
Ben Eppinger Germany	22	1.3k 1.1×	380 0.8×	300 0.9×	167 0.5×	111 0.4×	42	1.7k
Trevor T.‐J. Chong Australia	23	1.4k 1.2×	412 0.9×	170 0.5×	212 0.7×	444 1.6×	97	2.6k
Jan B. Engelmann Netherlands	20	910 0.8×	406 0.8×	278 0.8×	164 0.5×	129 0.5×	50	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Westbrook

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Westbrook, Andrew, Ruben van den Bosch, Lieke Hofmans, et al.. (2025). Striatal dopamine can enhance both fast working memory, and slow reinforcement learning, while reducing implicit effort cost sensitivity. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6320–6320. 1 indexed citations

Westbrook, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Hause, Andrew Westbrook, Frank Fan, & Michael Inzlicht. (2024). An experimental manipulation of the value of effort. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(5). 988–1000. 19 indexed citations

Luther, Lauren, Andrew Westbrook, Iván Ruiz, et al.. (2023). The role of defeatist performance beliefs on cognitive effort-cost decision-making in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 261. 216–224. 5 indexed citations

Seidman, Andrew J., et al.. (2023). Effects of current and past depressive episodes on behavioral performance and subjective experience during an N-back task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 81. 101852–101852. 2 indexed citations

Klevjer, Kristoffer, et al.. (2023). Is it cognitive effort you measure? Comparing three task paradigms to the Need for Cognition scale. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0290177–e0290177. 8 indexed citations

Westbrook, Andrew, Xiao Yang, Lauren M. Bylsma, et al.. (2022). Economic Choice and Heart Rate Fractal Scaling Indicate That Cognitive Effort Is Reduced by Depression and Boosted by Sad Mood. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(7). 687–694. 13 indexed citations

Bjork, James M., et al.. (2022). Cognitive effort avoidance in veterans with suicide attempt histories. Acta Psychologica. 231. 103788–103788. 3 indexed citations

Hofmans, Lieke, Andrew Westbrook, Ruben van den Bosch, et al.. (2021). Effects of average reward rate on vigor as a function of individual variation in striatal dopamine. Psychopharmacology. 239(2). 465–478. 7 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew, Arko Ghosh, Ruben van den Bosch, et al.. (2021). Striatal dopamine synthesis capacity reflects smartphone social activity. iScience. 24(5). 102497–102497. 32 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew, Ruben van den Bosch, Jessica I. Määttä, et al.. (2020). Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work. Science. 367(6484). 1362–1366. 202 indexed citations

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Lamichhane, Bidhan, Andrew Westbrook, Michael W. Cole, & Todd S. Braver. (2020). Exploring brain-behavior relationships in the N-back task. NeuroImage. 212. 116683–116683. 66 indexed citations

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Froböse, Monja I., Andrew Westbrook, Mirjam Bloemendaal, Esther Aarts, & Roshan Cools. (2020). Catecholaminergic modulation of the cost of cognitive control in healthy older adults. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0229294–e0229294. 12 indexed citations

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Chang, Wing Chung, Andrew Westbrook, Gregory P. Strauss, et al.. (2019). Abnormal cognitive effort allocation and its association with amotivation in first-episode psychosis. Psychological Medicine. 50(15). 2599–2609. 32 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew, Bidhan Lamichhane, & Todd S. Braver. (2019). The Subjective Value of Cognitive Effort is Encoded by a Domain-General Valuation Network. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(20). 3934–3947. 87 indexed citations

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Culbreth, Adam J., Andrew Westbrook, Todd S. Braver, & Deanna M. Barch. (2019). Effort in daily life: Relationships between experimental tasks and daily experience.. Motivation Science. 6(3). 303–308. 16 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew & Michael J. Frank. (2018). Dopamine and proximity in motivation and cognitive control. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 22. 28–34. 30 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew & Todd S. Braver. (2016). Dopamine Does Double Duty in Motivating Cognitive Effort. Neuron. 89(4). 695–710. 218 indexed citations

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Culbreth, Adam J., Andrew Westbrook, & Deanna Barch. (2016). Negative symptoms are associated with an increased subjective cost of cognitive effort.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(4). 528–536. 69 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Andrew & Todd S. Braver. (2015). Cognitive effort: A neuroeconomic approach. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 15(2). 395–415. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

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