Novelty enhances visual salience independently of reward in the parietal lobe

Novelty modulates sensory and reward processes, but it remains unknown how these effects interact, i.e., how the visual effects of novelty are related to its motivational effects. A widespread hypothesis, based on findings that novelty activates reward-related structures, is that all the effects of...

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Published in:	The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 34; no. 23; p. 7947
Main Authors:	Foley, Nicholas C, Jangraw, David C, Peck, Christopher, Gottlieb, Jacqueline
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 04.06.2014
Subjects:	Action Potentials - physiology Animals Attention - physiology Cues Exploratory Behavior - physiology Macaca mulatta Male Motivation Neurons - physiology Parietal Lobe - cytology Parietal Lobe - physiology Photic Stimulation Reaction Time - physiology Reward Statistics, Nonparametric reward salience intrinsic motivation monkey novelty parietal
ISSN:	1529-2401, 1529-2401
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