Consolidation power of extrinsic rewards: Reward cues enhance long-term memory for irrelevant past events

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-20

  Murayama, Kou ^a,b   Kitagami, Shinji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Incentives; Money; Postencoding; Reinforcement learning; Retrograde memory enhancement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOTIVATION; REWARD;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MOTIVATION; REWARD;

EID: 84893425311     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031992     Document Type: Article

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