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Striatal activity during contextual word learning is influenced by children's reading ability

The paper examines how reward-related brain activity during contextual word learning differs between children with typical reading skills and those with dyslexia, finding reduced ventral striatum activation in dyslexic children.

Seeing is Feeling: How Aphantasia Alters Emotional Engagement with Stories

This study investigates how aphantasia affects emotional engagement with stories, finding reduced emotional but not cognitive engagement in aphantasics compared to controls.

A Shared Neural Network for Highly Liked and Disliked Music

This study uses fMRI to show that highly liked and disliked music activate a shared neural network related to emotional processing, with individual differences in responsiveness influencing engagement.

Tracking the behavioral and neural dynamics of semantic representations through negation

The paper investigates how negation affects neural representations of adjectives using behavioral and MEG data, finding that negation suppresses rather than inverts meaning.

Entering into a self-regulated learning mode prevents detrimental effect of feedback removal on memory

The paper shows that self-regulated learning prevents memory decline from feedback removal in DA-dependent learning but not in DA-independent learning.

Statistical learning as reinforcement learning phenomena

The paper shows that online statistical language learning correlates with reinforcement learning principles and striatal activity in two cohorts.

Integrating When and What Information in the Left Parietal Lobe Allows Language Rule Generalization

The paper shows that after statistical learning, goal-directed attention in the left parietal lobe enables rule generalization in language learning.

Population-level differences in the neural substrates supporting Statistical Learning

The paper identifies individual differences in neural substrates for statistical word form learning using fMRI and shows that a fronto-parietal network selectively enhances performance.

Dopaminergic signalling modulates reward-driven music memory consolidation

This study investigates how dopamine affects memory consolidation of music, finding that dopaminergic interventions modulate memory recognition and pleasantness of music in individuals sensitive to musical reward.

Intrinsically regulated learning is modulated by synaptic dopamine availability

This study shows that dopamine availability modulates intrinsically regulated learning, with memory benefits observed only in individuals with high reward sensitivity after pharmacological intervention.