New paper by Mojtaba Rostami Kandroodi in Psychopharmacology

Our study entitled “Effects of methylphenidate on reinforcement learning depend on working memory capacity” is now published online in the Psychopharmacology journal. In this study, we investigated the effects of methylphenidate on human behaviour during the probabilistic reversal learning task. We found that there is large inter-individual variability in the effects of methylphenidate on learning and the effects depend on working memory span. Specifically, methylphenidate improved performance by adaptively reducing the effective learning rate in participants with higher working memory capacity.

The paper is open access and you can download it here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00213-021-05974-w