Curiosity plays a fundamental role for learning and memory, but the neural mechanisms that
stimulate curiosity and its effect on memory are poorly understood. Accumulating evidence …

Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Hippocampal place cells support reward-related spatial memories by forming a cognitive
map that over-represents reward locations. The strength of these memories is modulated by …

In recent years, gambling has become increasingly prominent in everyday life; the term
'gamblification'first emerged in the late 2000s and was used to describe the colonisation of …

Memory helps guide behavior, but which experiences from the past are prioritized? Classic
models of learning posit that events associated with unpredictable outcomes as well as …

Dopamine is thought to provide reward prediction error signals to temporal lobe memory
systems, but the role of these signals in episodic memory has not been fully characterized …

The characterization of the relationship between predictions and one-shot episodic
encoding poses an important challenge for memory research. On the one hand, events that …

Prediction errors drive reinforcement learning and organize episodic memory into distinct
contexts, but do these effects interact? Here, we review the roles of midbrain dopamine, the …

Curiosity states benefit memory for target information, but also incidental information
presented during curiosity states. However, it is not known whether incidental curiosity …

Adaptive decision-making is governed by at least two types of memory processes. On the
one hand, learned predictions through integrating multiple experiences, and on the other …