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"Novel stimuli can speed subsequent cued motor actions even without explicit reward."

Human participants responded faster when motor actions were cued by novel rather than familiar images, providing laboratory evidence for an energizing effect of novelty rather than a workplace productivity estimate.

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Source title Stimulus Novelty Energizes Actions in the Absence of Explicit Reward
Source authors Raphael Koster; Tricia X. Seow; Raymond J. Dolan; Emrah Düzel
Source year 2016
Confidence high
Importance high
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