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SUBMITTER: Stoppel CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6871036 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stoppel Christian Michael CM Boehler Carsten Nicolas CN Strumpf Hendrik H Heinze Hans-Jochen HJ Hopf Jens Max JM Düzel Emrah E Schoenfeld Mircea Ariel MA
Human brain mapping 20091101 11
The detection of novel events and their identification is a basic prerequisite in a rapidly changing environment. Recently, the processing of novelty has been shown to rely on the hippocampus and to be associated with activity in reward-related areas. The present study investigated the influence of spatial attention on neural processing of novel relative to frequently presented standard and target stimuli. Never-before-seen Mandelbrot-fractals absent of semantic content were employed as stimulus ...[more]