We examined anticipatory mechanisms of reward-motivated memory formation using event-
related FMRI. In a monetary incentive encoding task, cues signaled high-or low-value …

Emerging evidence suggests that motivation enhances episodic memory formation through
interactions between medial-temporal lobe (MTL) structures and dopaminergic midbrain. In …

Reward motivation is known to modulate memory encoding, and this effect depends on
interactions between the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area complex (SN/VTA) and the …

Reward motivation has been demonstrated to enhance declarative memory by facilitating
systems-level consolidation. Although high-reward information is often intermixed with lower …

Reward processing involves both appetitive and consummatory phases. We sought to
examine whether reward anticipation vs outcomes would recruit different regions of ventral …

Long-term potentiation in the hippocampus can be enhanced and prolonged by
dopaminergic inputs from midbrain structures such as the substantia nigra. This improved …

The motivation of getting rewards or avoiding punishments reinforces learning behaviors.
Although the neural mechanisms underlying the effect of rewards on episodic memory have …

Learning how to obtain rewards requires learning about their contexts and likely causes.
How do long-term memory mechanisms balance the need to represent potential …

Memory retrieval is typically a goal-directed behavior, and as such, potentially influenced by
reinforcement and motivation processes. Although striatal activation is often evident during …

The human striatum has been implicated in processing reward-related information. More
recently, activity in the striatum, particularly the caudate nucleus, has been observed when a …