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Effort as Ceiling, Not Dial: Reasoning Budget Does Not Modulate Cognitive Cost Alignment Between Humans and Large Reasoning Models

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Main Authors:	Hu, Yueqing, Wang, Tianhong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Neurons and Cognition
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