High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context

Learning through reward is central to adaptive behaviour. Indeed, items are remembered better if they are experienced while participants expect a reward, and people can deliberately prioritize memory for high- over low-valued items. Do memory advantages for high-valued items only emerge after delibe...

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Main Authors: Christopher R Madan, Esther eFujiwara, Bridgette C Gerson, Jeremy B Caplan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2012.00061/full