Does Depression Impact Our Memory for Rewarding Experiences

"The Motivated Learning Task is split into two parts, the learning phase, and the test phase. During the learning phase participants are presented with 72 landscape images (targets) which they must memorise. Each image which participants are shown is associated with a reward amount. During the test phase participants are shown the 72 images they saw during the learning phase, known as targets, intermixed with 72 new images they did not see during the learning phase, known as lures. Participants must decide whether the image is old (i.e., they saw it during the learning phase) or new (i.e. they did not see it during the learning phase). After they have made their old/new decision, participants rate their confidence in their decision on a 3-point scale (i.e., guess, sure, very sure)."