Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

S3 Ep 5: Your Mind on Cognitive Effort How do you decide to do your maths homework or play a video game? Does the maths homework feel like more effort than the video game? This week we speak with Dr. Laura Ana Bustamante about how cognitive effort effects the decisions we make. She speaks about her research relating cognitive to physical effort, how we can increase our willingness to exert effort and the relationship between anxiety and cognitive effort are linked. Ava and Beth discuss their own approaches when it comes to effort.

Neurodivergence and Decision-Making, with Laura BustamanteListen to this episode from Unstandardized English on Spotify. In this episode, host Dr. JPB Gerald speaks with his guest, Dr. Laura Ana Bustamante, about her work studying neurodivergence and computational psychiatry. If you don't know what that means, listen! Buy Dr. Gerald's book here.

Neurodivergence, Effort, and Reward with Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD. Schizoid Angst YouTube Channel Interview.

Academics Don’t Talk About Our Mental Illnesses. We Should. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Featured in article by Dr. Alicia Andrzejewski. https://www.chronicle.com/article/academics-dont-talk-about-our-mental-illnesses-we-should

Neurodiversity advocates push for greater recognition, inclusion. The Daily Princetonian. Quoted in article as co‐organizer of Wintersession neurodiversity workshop.

Neurodiversity advocates push for greater recognition, inclusion“Reflecting the “infinite variation in human minds,” neurodivergence can be considered a natural form of human diversity subject to similar social dynamics as race or gender, workshop organizer Sashank Pisupati told attendees.”