Christian Buechel

Reactivation of reward-related patterns from single past episodes supports memory-based decision making

The paper shows that reactivating reward-related neural patterns from single past episodes influences memory-based decision making and financial risk-taking.

Pain to remember: a single incidental association with pain leads to increased memory for neutral items one year later

This study shows that pairing neutral items with pain enhances memory for those items one year later, with neural correlates in the insula.