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Subjects were exposed to sequences of colored shapes and required torate each stimulus on a 7-point scale for “novelty.” The sequences were such that 12 hypotheses regarding determinants of subjective novelty could be tested by orthogonal comparisons. The results of two experiments confirmed eight of the hypotheses.
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Suported by research grant APB-73 from the National Research Council of Canada. Experiment 1 was reported by L. C. C. Parham in a thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the M. A. degree of the University of Toronto.
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Berlyne, D.E., Parham, L.C.C. Determinants of subjective novelty. Perception & Psychophysics 3, 415–423 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205748
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