Syntes: States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit (2014)

Källa: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.060 (Neuron 84(2))

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• [abstract] fMRI study of how curiosity influences memory: adults rated curiosity about trivia questions, then saw the answers in the scanner, with unrelated neutral faces shown while they waited.
• [abstract] In both immediate and one-day-delayed tests, people remembered information they were curious about better, and also incidental material (faces) learned during high-curiosity states.
• [abstract] Activity in the midbrain and nucleus accumbens was higher during high curiosity; the curiosity benefit for incidental material was supported by anticipatory midbrain and hippocampus activity and their connectivity.
• [full text, PMC4252494] Answers to high-curiosity questions were recalled more often than to low-curiosity questions (70.6% vs 54.1%).

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• [assessment] Adult lab study with trivia material, not school learning. Sample size is in the supplement, not checked; the earlier note's "small sample" is removed as unverified.

Added 2026-10-16 by the project (broadening, Jonatan approved 2026-10-16). Verified 2026-10-16 by the project against the sources named in each line. [abstract] = from the published abstract; [full text] = read in the full text; [assessment] = the project's own judgement, not a fact from the paper.