Results suggest that consumers recall familiar brands placed in the video game better than unfamiliar ones.
The ASL interpreters were given scientific words, such as Tiktaalik and names of periods of the geologic time scale, in advance in order to better interpret unfamiliar terms to the audience.
Based on previous reports of bilingual strength in narrative discourse, we predicted that the bilingual group would perform equally well in comparison to the monolinguals in the discourse measures and better in the unfamiliar tasks, based on the context of their L2 acquisition being primarily in school, an unfamiliar context.
Construction workers with lower education level perceived the referents as less concrete than those with higher education level; and those with higher spatial imagery preference (i.e. the preference for using imagery to represent spatial relations among objects schematically and to perform complex spatial transformations) were better at processing unfamiliar and abstract referents.
As expected, 'familiar context leads to better performance than unfamiliar context' (H3) (p < .05).05
In addition, there was an interaction between type of decoding and familiarity (F1,9 = 10.78, P = 0.009) with between-category decoding being slightly better for familiar than unfamiliar objects but within-category decoding being slightly better for unfamiliar objects.
Grexit, for those unfamiliar, is better known as the maker of a social task management system for Gmail.
And between bureaucratic labyrinths of data, the vagaries of political responsibility, and the government's retreat from the public sector, we come back to the crux of countless migrant stories: the battle for a better life in an unfamiliar new world.
Audiences, especially those curious if also cautious about sampling the cinematically unfamiliar, might be better served with a less obfuscating come-on.
Often, this means digging through unfamiliar literature to better understand their fields, which can be both educational (remember the winter flounder? – I'd never heard of it before), and at times confusing (I'm still not sure what all those micro-organisms living in the arctic soil are).
