Kou Murayama

The paper investigates how curiosity and monetary incentives affect memory encoding and neural activation during incidental learning of dynamic stimuli using fMRI and behavioral experiments.

This study investigates how curiosity and monetary incentives influence memory consolidation through changes in midbrain-hippocampal resting-state functional connectivity during learning.

The paper investigates how task difficulty and reward affect task enjoyment and striatal activation, finding intrinsic motivation for near-impossible tasks without extrinsic rewards.

This study shows that mindfulness meditation alters the structure and configuration of functional brain networks, including changes in community size and regional composition.

The paper examines the neural mechanisms of curiosity and hunger by showing shared striatal activity in decisions to satisfy curiosity or hunger despite physical risks.

This study investigates eye movement artefacts in simultaneous multi-slice fMRI data and shows that artefact severity depends on the phase-encoding direction.