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PERPETUAL NOVELTY
Within this thesis is a mapping out of the processes, concepts, and influences, behind the sculptural practice of Brian Caverly. From Complex Adaptive Systems to the world of order of Michel Foucault to the reexamination of the Modernist movement by Yve Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, a rhizomatic …
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Predictive Novelty Detection in Songbird Auditory Cortex
… the processing of novel stimuli. Detecting novelty is therefore a fundamental problem for the brain to solve. And it turns out to be complicated, as stimuli can be completely novel, or just novel relative to certain certain contexts or expectations. To better understand how the brain detects …
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Stimulus Matters: Effects of Familiarity versus Novelty
… was to study the effects of familiarity and novelty on inhibitory control. Thirty-five preschoolers between two and five years of age were tested in four different versions of the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS). Performance was no different among standard, 2D-familiar, and 3D-familiar …
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On the Origins of Genetic Novelty in Drosophila
… lies the fundamental question of the origins of novelty, for there cannot be variation without a source of new variants. Understanding how novelty emerges, then, is a crucial problem of basic relevance in evolutionary biology. In this thesis, I examine two aspects regarding the origins of …
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Characterizing Novelty as a Motivator in Online Citizen Science
… The literature in psychology noted that novelty is an attribute of objects and environments that occasion curiosity in humans leading to exploratory behaviors, e.g., prolonged engagement with the object or environment. This dissertation described the design, implementation, and evaluation …
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AI-Based Novelty Detection for Industrial and Robotic Applications
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Inspiration and Novelty: Creativity and the Modularity of Mind
… a naturalistic explanation of the origin of novelty in creative thought. Darwinian evolution by natural selection explains the origin of novelty in the biological sphere, and theories of creativity drawing an analogy with evolution are examined. It is concluded that whereas creativity clearly …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
In this thesis, I argue that the familiar novelty of the pop-up book, in the century since its invention, has become the most vivid icon of ‘children’s literature’ in contemporary Anglo American culture – a recognisable shorthand for the book made for the child, the childlike or childish story, or …
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Aesthetic experience, novelty and consciousness in the comprehension of metaphors
… expressiveness. This thesis argues that novelty is the key source of meaning creation in the interpretative process of metaphors and explains how potentialities are at the core of the comprehension of new meaning. This epistemological study considers a wide range of approaches which aim …
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The novelty of improvisation: towards a genre of embodied spontaneity
… model, the modern novel. In this manner, the "novelty" of embodied spontaneity is uncovered. This heightened understanding of the improvisational impetus is considerably enriched through a detailed consideration of a diverse field of spontaneous movements that span numerous regions, periods and …
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Novelty in goal-oriented machines using a thread memory structure
Resourcefulness and creativity are desirable properties for an intelligent machine. The incredible adeptness of the human mind at seeing situations from diverse viewpoints allows it to conjure many techniques to accomplish the same goal, and hence recover elegantly when one method fails. In the …
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Phylogenetic and developmental studies into the evolution of an insect novelty
The insects possess one of the most instantly recognisable bodyplans. This thesis addresses the evolution of one characteristic feature of the insects: the intercalary segment of the head. This small, appendageless segment is the homologue of the ancestral crustacean second antennal segment and its …
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Batch and Online Implicit Weighted Gaussian Processes for Robust Novelty Detection
… case of a recently proposed approach to GP-based novelty detection that uses standard GPs (i.e. GPs employing Gaussian likelihoods). However, standard GPs are sensitive to outliers in training data, and this limitation carries over to GP-based novelty detection. This limitation has been typically …
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Novelty and Complexity as a Function of Preference for Visual Stimuli
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The effects of hippocampal amnesia on retrieval orientation and novelty processing
… suggesting that the hippocampus is important for novelty processing. Several experiments presented here explore what novelty processing may be exactly, how it relates to typically-discussed memory processing, and how hippocampal function impacts these processes. The broad umbrella of ‘novelty …
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Novelty, Prediction Error and Memory Encoding: Limitations of the Pimms Framework
… (PIMMS) framework has been used to explain how novelty, or more precisely “prediction error”, boosts memory encoding. In this thesis, I explored several other phenomena in the animal and human literature that PIMMS cannot yet explain but should. PIMMS predicts that unexpected information will be …
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Investigating genetic programming with novelty and domain knowledge for program synthesis
… performance via grammatical evolution using novelty search -- substituting the conventional search objective -- based on synthesis quality, with a novelty objective. This prompts us to introduce a new selection method named knobelty which parametrically balances exploration and exploitation. …
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Novelty-Seeking Behavior as a Function of Manifest Anxiety and Physiological Arousal
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Individual sensitivity to novelty and (+)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine: Roles for serotonin and GABA neurotransmission
… the brain structures activated secondary to novelty in HR vs. LR rats and the phenotype-specific behavioral changes after repeated exposure to the environment. Our findings revealed a strong influence of GABA neurotransmission that may underlie the differences between HR vs. LR behavioral …
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