title: Recognition memory: what's new in novelty signals?
abstract: A new study indicates that signals distinguishing between new and old stimuli are present very rapidly in the human brain, but only when subjects are motivated by explicit reward instructions.
authors.affiliation: University of Bristol, MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. M.W.Brown@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: Malcolm W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009042:Motivation; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D012201:Reward; D013045:Species Specificity; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*