ArticleNeurobiology of learning and memory2021
A predictive account of how novelty influences declarative memory.
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- No Effects of Predictability on Word-Meaning Priming and Incidental Memory.Journal of cognition · 2026Article
- Graded encoding of spatial novelty scales in the human brain.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Rich autobiographical memory benefits from both novelty and similarity to other daily experiences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Rich autobiographical memory recall benefits from both novelty and similarity to other daily experiences.Research square · 2025Article
- Hippocampal mismatch signals are based on episodic memories and not schematic knowledge.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Coordinated representations for naturalistic memory encoding and retrieval in hippocampal neural subspaces.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Investigation of Brain Regions Responsible for The Processing of The Stimulus Novelty by Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2025Article
- Unexpected Twists: Electrophysiological Correlates of Encoding and Retrieval of Events Eliciting Prediction Error.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Accurate Predictions Facilitate Robust Memory Encoding Independently From Stimulus Probability.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- When personality meets surprise: individual differences in memory for unexpected events.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- To update or to create? The influence of novelty and prior knowledge on memory networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Do Children (and Adults) Benefit From a Prediction Error Boost in One-Shot Word Learning?Journal of cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
A rich body of studies in the human and non-human literature has examined the question how novelty influences memory. For a variety of different stimuli, ranging from simple objects and words to vastly complex scenarios, the literature reports that novelty improves memory in some cases, but impairs memory in other cases. In recent attempts to reconcile these conflicting findings, novelty has been divided into different subtypes, such as relative versus absolute novelty, or stimulus versus contextual novelty. Nevertheless, a single overarching theory of novelty and memory has been difficult to attain, probably due to the complexities in the interactions among stimuli, environmental factors (e.g., spatial and temporal context) and level of prior knowledge (but see Duszkiewicz et al., 2019; Kafkas & Montaldi, 2018b; Schomaker & Meeter, 2015). Here we describe how a predictive coding framework might be able to shed new light on different types of novelty and how they affect declarative memory in humans. More precisely, we consider how prior expectations modulate the influence of novelty on encoding episodes into memory, e.g., in terms of surprise, and how novelty/surprise affect memory for surrounding information. By reviewing a range of behavioural findings and their possible underlying neurobiological mechanisms, we highlight where a predictive coding framework succeeds and where it appears to struggle.
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