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November 26, 2008

How would you engineer a novelty detector?

Cognitive NeuroscienceComputational Modeling ] 

Play cognitive engineer: if you were designing an intelligent system, you'd probably use the same system to detect novelty as that used to detect familiarity. After all, one is simply the inverse of the other - so novelty can be...

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November 25, 2008

Novelty and Unacknowledged Confounds In Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience ] 

To efficiently direct learning, it may be useful for the brain to attend to those items which are maximally novel - this novelty may obscure some predictive or rewarding value that has not yet been learned or exploited. This is...

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