Moment-to-moment fluctuations in arousal can have large effects on learning and memory.
For example, when neutral items are predictive of a later reward, they are often remembered …

Previous work has shown that humans distribute their visual working memory (VWM)
resources flexibly across items: the higher the importance of an item, the better it is …

Attention and reward are functions that are critical for the control of behavior, and massive
multi-region neural systems have evolved to support the discrete computations associated …

Purpose Cancer survivors frequently report significant forgetfulness, but standard
neuropsychological tests often fail to detect primary memory deficits. Past research has …

记忆辨别反映了个体对所经历事件能够形成独特的记忆表征并正确拒斥相似诱饵的能力,
是情景记忆最重要的特征之一. 研究采用奖赏条件学习范式和记忆相似任务考察奖赏预测误差对 …

Reward benefits to memory formation have been robustly linked to dopaminergic activity.
Despite the established characterization of dopaminergic mechanisms as operating at …

Mnemonic discrimination was defined as a behavioral index of pattern separation to reflect
the ability to discriminate memory representations of similar features. The purpose of this …

In this dissertation I defend the view that the phenomenal character of some conscious
experiences is constituted in part by conceptual representations, including conceptual …

Previous work has shown that humans distribute their visual working memory (VWM)
resources flexibly across items: the higher the importance of an item, the better it is …

Pursuing goals requires us to be flexible. When engaged in goal-directed behaviour, such
flexibility is guided by the prospect of reward. The first part of this thesis examines how …