Table 1.

Effort-Based Decision Making Paradigms: Overview and Comparison

	Effort Type	Calibration: Individual Titrated “Hard” Trials (Y/N)	Reward:Actual Earnings or Prefixed Amount	Probability (Y/N)	Time-Matched Hard/Easy Trials (Y/N)
Deck Choice Effort Task	Cognitive	No	Actual	No	Yes
Perceptual Effort Task	Perceptual	Yes	Actual	No	Yes
Grip Effort Task	Physical	Yes	Actual	No	Yes
Balloon Effort Task	Physical	No	Prefixed	No	No
EEfRT	Physical	Yes	Prefixed	Yes	No