Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Interplay between midbrain and dorsal anterior cingulate regions arbitrates lingering reward effects on memory encoding

  • Kristoffer Carl Aberg,
  • Emily Elizabeth Kramer,
  • Sophie Schwartz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15542-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Rewarded stimuli are better encoded in memory. Here, the authors show that the average accumulation of reward over consecutive trials provides an additive, non-linear (inverted U-shape) modulation of memory encoding, paralleled by a similar recruitment of dopaminergic memory circuitry.