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Novelty was found to enhance learning and the processing of familiar items in the perirhinal/parahippocampal regions.
The human SN/VTA can code absolute stimulus novelty.
SN/VTA novelty responses were found to be scaled by absolute novelty, not relative novelty.
In two fMRI studies, human SN/VTA activations were driven by stimulus novelty, while hippocampal responses were less selective.
Novelty exploration in animals can enhance hippocampal plasticity via dopaminergic neuromodulation from the SN/VTA.
The enhancement of hippocampal plasticity from novelty exploration can last for several minutes after the exploration phase.
The fiber amounts presented in the article were rounded to the nearest half gram.