ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2020
The influence of rewards on incidental memory: more does not mean better.
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- Boosting executive functions and math abilities in adolescents with dyscalculia: the combined effect of prismatic adaptation and cognitive training.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Trial
- Repeated extrinsic rewards following retrieval practice facilitate later memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Value-Directed Remembering: A Dual-Process Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Emotional intensity produces a linear relationship on conditioned learning but an inverted U-shaped effect on episodic memory.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Evidence for the Beneficial Effect of Reward on Working Memory: A Meta-Analytic Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Reward conditioning may not have an effect on category-specific memory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The interactive effect of external rewards and self-determined choice on memory.Psychological research · 2023Article
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Abstract
Studies have revealed that rewards promote long-term memory, even in an incidental way. However, most previous studies using the incidental paradigm have included two reward levels, and it is still not clear how the reward magnitude influences memory. Adopting the incidental paradigm and three reward levels, the current study revealed that the reward magnitude impacted 1-d delayed episodic memory in a nonlinear, inverted U-shaped pattern. An additional experiment showed that there was no reward effect in immediate episodic memory. Our results support the dopaminergic memory consolidation theory and further imply that the reward magnitude needs to be considered in the theory.
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