Reward contains separable psychological components of learning, incentive motivation and
pleasure. Most computational models have focused only on the learning component of …

Reward-related cues are an important part of our daily life as they often influence and guide
our actions. This paper reviews one of the experimental paradigms used to study the effects …

Objective: Determine whether a novel psychosocial treatment for positive affect improves
clinical status and reward sensitivity more than a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that …

Recent behavioral studies in both humans and rodents have found evidence that
performance in decision-making tasks depends on two different learning processes; one …

Evidence supports at least two methods for learning about reward and punishment and
making predictions for guiding actions. One method, called model-free, progressively …

The hypothesis that dopamine is important for reward has been proposed in a number of
forms, each of which has been challenged. Normally, rewarding stimuli such as food, water …

Introduction Debate continues over the precise causal contribution made by mesolimbic
dopamine systems to reward. There are three competing explanatory categories:'liking' …

What brain reward systems mediate motivational 'wanting'and hedonic 'liking'for food
rewards? And what roles do those systems play in eating disorders? This article surveys …

Advances in neurobiology permit neuroscientists to manipulate specific brain molecules,
neurons and systems. This has lead to major advances in the neuroscience of reward. Here …

Memory is an essential element to adaptive behavior since it allows consolidation of past
experience guiding the subject to consider them in future experiences. Among the …