Nature Communications (Apr 2020)
Interplay between midbrain and dorsal anterior cingulate regions arbitrates lingering reward effects on memory encoding
Abstract
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.