Recognition memory is the ability to distinguish novel from familiar stimuli. This thesis
explores opposing models of recognition memory that alternatively assume that the …

Expression of the immediate‐early gene c‐fos was used to test for different patterns of
temporal lobe interactions when rats explore either novel or familiar objects. A new …

Spontaneous object recognition (SOR) is a widely used task of recognition memory in
rodents which relies on their propensity to explore novel (or relatively novel) objects …

Research into object recognition memory has been galvanised by the introduction of
spontaneous preference tests for rodents. The standard task, however, contains a number of …

There is a prevalent assumption in the recognition memory literature that the terms “novelty”
and “familiarity” are words ascribed to differing extremities of a single memory strength …

A fundamental property of adaptive behavior is the ability to rapidly distinguish what is novel
from what is familiar in our environment. Empirical evidence and computational work have …

This review will consider how spontaneous tasks have been applied alongside
neuroscientific techniques to test complex forms of recognition memory for objects and their …

Perirhinal cortex lesions in rats consistently impair object recognition memory, as shown by
the failure to spend more time exploring a novel object in preference to a familiar object in a …

Recognition memory provides the ability to judge if a stimulus has been encountered before.
Depending on the type of information to be used for recognition, this process depends on a …

Recognition memory, or the discrimination between novelty and familiarity, is well predicted
by an associative model of memory (Wagner's SOP). In this thesis I examined predictions …