Reward and loss incentives improve spatial working memory by shaping trial-by-trial posterior frontoparietal signals
Cho YT, Moujaes F, Schleifer CH, Starc M, Ji JL, Santamauro N, Adkinson B, Kolobaric A, Flynn M, Krystal JH, Murray JD, Repovs G, Anticevic A. Reward and loss incentives improve spatial working memory by shaping trial-by-trial posterior frontoparietal signals. NeuroImage 2022, 254: 119139. PMID: 35346841, PMCID: PMC9264479, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119139.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMemory precisionSpatial working memoryIntraparietal sulcusPrecentral sulcusWorking memoryMotivational signalsBOLD signalParietal cortexReward/lossVisual association regionsDorsolateral prefrontal cortexGoal-directed activityMemory paradigmMemory performanceMemory processesAnterior parietal cortexExecutive networkNeural changesSensory processesPrefrontal cortexLoss incentivesVentral striatumNon-human primate studiesTranslational neuroscienceMemory