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Neural Representations of Reward-Related Memories Shift across Development.

Alexandra O Cohen¹, Susan L Benear², Camille V Phaneuf-Hadd³

¹Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta 30322, Georgia ali.cohen@emory.edu cate@nyu.edu.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience

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Reward value influences memory across development. Brain patterns show reward impacts memory encoding and retrieval, with hippocampal representations shifting from stability in adults to drift in younger individuals.

Keywords:

RSA development fMRI memory neural representations reward

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Developmental Psychology

Background:

Rewards enhance memory formation and recall.
Neural mechanisms of reward-based memory across development are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate how reward influences neural memory representations.
Examine age-related changes in reward-modulated memory from childhood to adulthood.

Main Methods:

Pattern similarity analyses of fMRI data in participants aged 8-25.
Examined neural representations in memory-related brain areas during encoding and retrieval.

Main Results:

Reward information modulated pattern similarity in ventral temporal cortex and anterior hippocampus (aHC).
Adults' memory benefited from stable aHC representations, while younger individuals showed benefits from representational drift.
Ventral tegmental area activation correlated with aHC representational drift.

Conclusions:

Reward significantly modulates neural memory representations.
The brain's representational strategies for reward-motivated memory evolve with age.