Topic: multimodal sensory stimuli

Novelty is an attribute of a stimulus that lacks a pre-existing representation and novelty detection involves a series of interrelated processes, each playing a unique role. Different medial temporal lobe structures including the hippocampus have been highly implicated to play a major role in novelty detection. In this project, we aim to understand how CA1 of the hippocampus encodes novelty and familiarity signals induced by unimodal and multimodal sensory stimuli and what are the processes that mediate the transition between novelty and familiarity. We plan to use a multisensory cue delivery