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The striatum is thought to play a key role in determining whether a goal is worth the required cognitive effort, but whether and how the striatum causally influences effort-based decisions in humans remains unclear. Here, we address this gap by employing transcranial temporal interference stimulation (tTIS), a novel non-invasive brain stimulation technique capable of targeting deeper brain regions. In particular, we applied striatum-targeted tTIS to healthy participants performing an effort-based decision task during functional MRI scanning. Supporting the idea that the striatum encodes both the benefits and costs of actions, we found that, on the behavioral level, striatum-targeted tTIS increased the sensitivity to both reward magnitudes and effort costs. 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