A research team from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and East China Normal University (ECNU) has published a ...

If you are worried that "my motivation to learn is high, but for some reason I can't keep it up," the cause may not be your ...

In a lot of situations we don’t really notice because it’s already there.” For the paper, Yang and Yilin Liu, now a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas, performed four studies on 4–9 ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...

Hunger can drive a motivational state that leads an animal to a successful pursuit of a goal -- foraging for and finding food. In a highly novel study, researchers describe how two major neuronal ...

A new study published this week in Molecular Psychiatry by Emory University researchers has revealed a promising new avenue for treating motivational deficits in patients suffering from depression.

Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to engage in activities for their inherent satisfaction, is a fundamental aspect of effective learning. This concept, rooted in the principles of ...

In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...