Ss can search for “any unfamiliar symbol” in a list of letters as rapidly as for “any numeral,” but less rapidly than for a fixed and familiar symbol. This suggests that “novelty” is not an immediately given property of stimuli, but one outcome of a particular kind of pattern processing.
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