The ability to prioritize valuable information is critical for the efficient use of memory in daily
life. When information is important, we engage more effective encoding mechanisms that …

A number of prior fMRI studies have focused on the ways in which the midbrain
dopaminergic reward system coactivates with hippocampus to potentiate memory for …

While impairments in memory recall are apparent in aging, older adults show a remarkably
preserved ability to selectively remember information deemed valuable. Here, we use fMRI …

Motivational relevance can prioritize information for memory encoding and consolidation
based on reward value. In this review, we pinpoint the possible psychological and neural …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on how older adults use evaluative processing to
guide encoding and retrieval operations, and how older adults then use value to make …

An emerging literature on value-directed remembering has shown that people are able to
encode and remember information that is more important. Researchers operationalize …

Reward motivation has been demonstrated to enhance declarative memory by facilitating
systems-level consolidation. Although high-reward information is often intermixed with lower …

Valuable items are often remembered better than less valuable items, but research on the
mechanisms supporting this value effect is limited. In the current study, we sought to …

Remembering often requires the selection of goal-relevant memories in the face of
competition from irrelevant memories. Although there is a cost of selecting target memories …

The ability to control both what we remember and what is forgotten can enhance memory.
The present study used an item-method directed forgetting paradigm to investigate whether …