Recognition memory: what's new in novelty signals?
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.
Brown
Malcolm W
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University of Bristol, MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. M.W.Brown@bristol.ac.uk
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*