Neural correlates underlying the effect of reward value on recognition memory

Elliott, Blake L.; Blais, Chris; McClure, Samuel M.; Brewer, Gene A.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116296

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“…However, several differences between these two studies could explain the discrepancy. Most notably, an elaborative encoding task was not used in the study by Elliott et al (2020), while the relevance rating task of the present study is likely highly elaborative, and the FSW associated with item encoding is generally only elicited by elaborative or associative tasks (Fabiani et al, 1990). Further, the present finding is consistent with work by Cohen et al (2014Cohen et al ( , 2016, who did find that elaborative encoding strategies and related fMRI activity in the prefrontal cortex varied with extrinsic motivation.…”

Section: Fsw: Independent Effects Of Survival Processing and Reward Isupporting

confidence: 87%

“…It is also worth highlighting that, to our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that motivation via reward incentive can increase the FSW measure of elaborative encoding. This is at odds with a recent study that did not find evidence that reward incentive increases the FSW (Elliott et al, 2020). However, several differences between these two studies could explain the discrepancy.…”

Section: Fsw: Independent Effects Of Survival Processing and Reward Icontrasting

confidence: 60%

“…The P300 increases with increasing stimulus salience, reflecting increased cognitive resource allocation during early, relatively low-level stimulus evaluation (for reviews, see Johnson, 1986;Polich, 2007), and is closely tied to memory encoding (Donchin, 1981;Fabiani et al, 1986). Further, research has shown specifically that when participants' extrinsic motivation is high, the P300 is larger (e.g., Carrillo-de-la-Peña and Cadaveira, 2000;Goldstein et al, 2006;Elliott et al, 2020), and it can thus serve as a measure of the effect of motivation on resource allocation during low-level stimulus evaluation when other stimuli and task features are controlled for.…”

Section: Erp Measures Of Resource Allocation and Elaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory

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Kroneisen

Erdfelder

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Humans preferentially remember information processed for their survival relevance, a memorial benefit known as the survival processing effect. Memory is also biased towards information associated with the prospect of reward. Given the adaptiveness of these effects, they may depend on similar mechanisms. We tested whether motivation drives both effects, with reward incentives that are known to boost extrinsic motivation and survival processing perhaps stimulating intrinsic motivation. Accordingly, we manipulated survival processing and reward incentive independently during an incidental-encoding task in which participants chose between pairs of words concerning their relevance for a scenario, and examined the effects on encoding event-related potentials (ERP) activity and later performance on a surprise recall test. We hypothesized that if survival processing fosters intrinsic motivation, it should reduce the beneficial effects of extrinsic motivation (reward incentive). In contrast to this prediction, we found that reward incentive and survival processing independently improved memory and that the P300, a measure of lower-level cognitive resource allocation, was increased by reward incentive independent of survival processing. Further, survival processing and reward incentive independently increased the frontal slow wave (FSW), a measure of higher-level elaboration. These findings suggest that while survival processing and reward incentive may both increase encoding elaboration, the memory-enhancing effect of survival processing does not depend on increased intrinsic motivation. Additionally, we replicated a recent finding whereby the survival processing effect generalizes to a choice-based encoding task and further showed that the beneficial effect of choice on memory likely does not interact with either survival processing or reward.

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Section: Fsw: Independent Effects Of Survival Processing and Reward Isupporting

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Section: Fsw: Independent Effects Of Survival Processing and Reward Icontrasting

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“…2020 ). It is also possible that the parietal old/new effect was accelerated in response to severe than moderate PM cues, given that it is tightly linked to recognition memory ( Friedman and Johnson Jr 2000 ; Mecklinger 2000 ) and sensitive to variations in reward ( Elliott et al. 2020 ).…”

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“…2020 ) and/or larger in amplitude ( Yeung and Sanfey 2004 ; Yeung et al. 2005 ; Elliott et al. 2020 ) in response to rewarding stimuli compared to not rewarding ones.…”

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The Impact of Error-Consequence Severity on Cue Processing in Importance-Biased Prospective Memory

Krasich

Gjorgieva

Murray

et al. 2021

Cerebral Cortex Communications

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Prospective memory (PM) enables people to remember to complete important tasks in the future. Failing to do so can result in consequences of varying severity. Here, we investigated how PM error-consequence severity impacts the neural processing of relevant cues for triggering PM and the ramification of that processing on the associated prospective task performance. Participants role-played a cafeteria worker serving lunches to fictitious students and had to remember to deliver an alternative lunch to students (as PM cues) who would otherwise experience a moderate or severe aversive reaction. Scalp-recorded, event-related potential (ERP) measures showed that the early-latency frontal positivity, reflecting the perception-based neural responses to previously learned stimuli, did not differ between the severe versus moderate PM cues. In contrast, the longer-latency parietal positivity, thought to reflect full PM cue recognition and post-retrieval processes, was elicited earlier by the severe than the moderate PM cues. This faster instantiation of the parietal positivity to the severe-consequence PM cues was then followed by faster and more accurate behavioral responses. These findings indicate how the relative importance of a PM can be neurally instantiated in the form of enhanced and faster PM-cue recognition and processing and culminate into better PM.

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In vivo structural connectivity of the reward system along the hippocampal long axis

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Mohyee,

Ballard

et al. 2024

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Recent work has identified a critical role for the hippocampus in reward‐sensitive behaviors, including motivated memory, reinforcement learning, and decision‐making. Animal histology and human functional neuroimaging have shown that brain regions involved in reward processing and motivation are more interconnected with the ventral/anterior hippocampus. However, direct evidence examining gradients of structural connectivity between reward regions and the hippocampus in humans is lacking. The present study used diffusion MRI (dMRI) and probabilistic tractography to quantify the structural connectivity of the hippocampus with key reward processing regions in vivo. Using a large sample of subjects (N = 628) from the human connectome dMRI data release, we found that connectivity profiles with the hippocampus varied widely between different regions of the reward circuit. While the dopaminergic midbrain (ventral tegmental area) showed stronger connectivity with the anterior versus posterior hippocampus, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex showed stronger connectivity with the posterior hippocampus. The limbic (ventral) striatum demonstrated a more homogeneous connectivity profile along the hippocampal long axis. This is the first study to generate a probabilistic atlas of the hippocampal structural connectivity with reward‐related networks, which is essential to investigating how these circuits contribute to normative adaptive behavior and maladaptive behaviors in psychiatric illness. These findings describe nuanced structural connectivity that sets the foundation to better understand how the hippocampus influences reward‐guided behavior in humans.

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Neural correlates underlying the effect of reward value on recognition memory

Cited by 31 publications

References 57 publications

Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory

Adaptive Memory: Independent Effects of Survival Processing and Reward Motivation on Memory

The Impact of Error-Consequence Severity on Cue Processing in Importance-Biased Prospective Memory

In vivo structural connectivity of the reward system along the hippocampal long axis

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