Ilaria Monti

The paper shows that performance under pain is maintained through increased effort, supported by computational modeling, across cognitive and motor tasks.

This study investigates whether contralateral thermal heat pain affects corticospinal and intracortical excitability, finding no reduction and instead increased corticospinal excitability, with perceived effort linked to pain experience rather than neural inhibition.

This study uses fMRI to investigate how brain regions like the supplementary motor area and anterior midcingulate cortex contribute to effort perception during pain and task performance.