Maaike M.H. van Swieten

This study shows that muscarinic receptors enhance motivation-related preparatory neural activity in humans, as evidenced by changes in reaction times and vigour during an incentivized task.

This study shows that hunger affects risk preferences more when risks are learned through experience than when they are explicitly described.

This study shows that hunger enhances reinforcement-driven decision-making but not planned actions, suggesting a bias toward primitive learning when hungry.

The paper develops a framework to model how motivation affects choice and learning in the basal ganglia by integrating physiological states with reinforcement learning mechanisms.