Snyder, K. A., Blank, M. P., &Marsolek, C. J. (2008). What form of memory underlies novelty preferences?. Psychonomic bulletin &review, 15(2), 315-321.
Novelty preferences (longer fixations on new stimuli than on previously presented stimuli) are widely used to assess memory in nonverbal populations, such as human infants and experimental animals, yet important questions remain about the nature of the processes that underlie them. We used a classical conditioning paradigm to test whether novelty preferences reflect (1) a stimulus-driven bias toward novelty in visual selective attention or (2) ...