► Pigeons judge the novelty of information by comparisons with past knowledge.
How the novelty of information is quantified in terms of a neural encoding signal and to what extent this is separable from the neural representation of familiarity are not fully understood.
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A NATION TRANSFORMED BY INFORMATION.Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and James W. Cortada.Oxford University Press; 392 pages; $39.95 and £25.99IT HAS taken about a decade of marvelling at the novelty of the information revolution for the realisation to dawn that much of what is happening may be new only in degree.
Other Mormons, however, have downplayed the novelty of the information contained in these essays.
In these areas, sensory preference adhered to the changes in information, novelty, and task relevance of the sensory inputs of the experimental design.
Using this paradigm and the SSA manipulation, we were able to detect changes in crossmodal effects in sensory cortices and in sensory responses in associative areas as the information, novelty, and task relevance of the sensory inputs changed.
To this end, 3 experimental conditions were carried out, which were similar or identical in terms of stimuli, but where the information, novelty, and task relevance of the sensory inputs were manipulated.
Thus, the pigeons' behavioural response regarding general attentiveness and predator-specific scanning behaviour to displayed stimuli was based on the reference of the signal, the novelty of the information and the perceived urgency rather than on the signals' physical properties alone.
