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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 156-176Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.11.015
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Reward motivation; Dopamine; Memory; Generalization; Learning
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- National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Affective Sciences - Swiss National Science Foundation [51NF40-104897]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [100014_140676, 320030_135653]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [320030_135653] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural mechanisms by which reward promotes learning, from guiding attention to enhancing memory consolidation. We then discuss how reward value can spill-over from one conditioned stimulus to a non-conditioned stimulus. Such generalization can occur across perceptually similar items or through more complex relations, such as associative or logical inferences. Existing evidence suggests that the neurotransmitter dopamine boosts the formation of declarative memory for rewarded information and may also control the generalization of reward values. In particular, temporally-correlated activity in the hippocampus and in regions of the dopaminergic circuit may mediate value-based decisions and facilitate cross-item integration. Given the importance of generalization in learning, our review points to the need to study not only how reward affects later memory but how learned reward values may generalize to related representations and ultimately alter memory structure. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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