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INFORMATION PROCESSING RELATED TO STIMULUS NOVELTY AND COMPLEXITY IN A SIGNAL DETECTION PARADIGM
Author(s) -
WEINER BERNARD,
FELDMAN PAUL
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1967.tb01058.x
Subject(s) - novelty , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , novelty detection , detection theory , information processing , visual perception , cognitive psychology , auditory stimuli , speech recognition , communication , pattern recognition (psychology) , neuroscience , perception , computer science , social psychology , telecommunications , detector
Three experiments are reported which investigated the informational properties of novel and complex stimuli. Irrelevant visual stimuli varying in novelty and complexity were employed as noise in an auditory signal detection task. Signal detection increased over the time of exposure of the visual stimuli, suggesting that the amount of information being processed from a stimulus is a function of its novelty. The judged complexity of the stimulus did not systematically influence signal detection. The investigations employed both within‐ and between‐subjects experimental designs.