Does the Brain Consume Additional Glucose during Self-Control Tasks?

A currently popular model of self-control posits that the exertion of self-control relies on a resource, which is expended by acts of self-control, resulting in less of this resource being available for subsequent acts of self-control. Recently, glucose has been proposed as the resource in question....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert Kurzban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800208