Objects associated with reward draw attention and evoke enhanced activity in visual cortex.
What is the underlying mechanism? One possibility is that reward9s impact on vision is …

Intracranial self-stimulation, in which an animal performs an operant response to receive
regional brain electrical stimulation, is a widely used procedure to study motivated behavior …

Humans can acquire appropriate behaviors that maximize rewards on a trial-and-error
basis. Recent electrophysiological and imaging studies have demonstrated that neural …

Animal studies indicate that hippocampal representations of environmental context
modulate reward-related processing in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area …

Transformation of sensory inputs to goal-directed actions requires estimation of sensory-cue
values based on outcome history. We conduct wide-field and two-photon calcium imaging of …

The basal forebrain, composed of distributed nuclei, including substantia innominata (SI),
nucleus basalis and nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca plays a crucial neuromodulatory …

Reward-related dopaminergic influences on learning and overt behaviour are well
established, but any influence on sensory decision-making is largely unknown. We used …

The attention system is shaped by reward history, such that learned reward cues
involuntarily draw attention. Recent research has begun to uncover the neural mechanisms …

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

Reward and novelty are potent learning signals that critically rely on dopaminergic midbrain
responses. Recent findings suggest that although reward and novelty are likely to interact …