The effects of novelty on low-level visual perception were investigated in two experiments using a two-alternative forced-choice tilt detection task. A target, consisting of a Gabor patch, was preceded by a cue that was either a novel or a familiar fractal image. Participants had to indicate whether the Gabor stimulus was vertically oriented or slightly tilted. In the first experiment tilt angl...

Ever since the first digital computer was constructed and equipped with sufficient hardware to process large amounts of data, digital image processing has become an increasingly used and desirable technique in many different fields. This is why it is important to understand the theory behind it and master its applications. While the human eye often is a final judge for an image that is to be in...

We report that stimulus novelty/familiarity is able to modulate stimulus generalization and discuss the theoretical implications of novelty/familiarity coding. Rats in Skinner boxes received clicker → shock pairings before generalization testing to a tone. Before clicker training, different groups of rats received preexposure treatments designed to systematically modulate the clicker and the to...

The generation of novelty is central to any creative endeavor. Novelty generation and the relationship between novelty and individual hedonic value have long been subjects of study in social psychology. However, few studies have utilized large-scale datasets to quantitatively investigate these issues. Here we consider the domain of American cinema and explore these questions using a database of...

Novelty mining is the process of mining relevant information on a given topic. However, designing adaptable services for real-world novelty mining faces several challenges like real-time processing of incoming documents, computational efficiency, multi-user working environment, diverse system requirements, and integration of domain knowledge from different users. In this paper, the authors brid...

It is often thought that novelty benefits memory formation. However, support for this idea mostly comes from paradigms that are open to alternative explanations. In the present study we manipulated novelty in a word-learning task through task-irrelevant background images. These background images were either standard (presented repeatedly), or novel (presented only once). Two types of background...