Brain activity related to familiarity-based recognition is often assessed by contrasting activity between "Familiar" and "Miss" trials, but for the reasons described above, the experiment was designed to yield high levels of recollection.
Besides, the disjunction between familiar surroundings and unfamiliar people can be upsetting.
I learned that I have phonagnosia: a dissociation between familiar and unfamiliar voices.
For the next 20 years, Basilico's publications and exhibitions gathered pace, as he zigzagged between familiar places and obsessions.
Corridors and staircases that I never knew existed are magically revealing themselves Hogwarts-style, providing new shortcuts between familiar places.
His monologue, however, remains standard fare, mostly banal topical jokes delivered in between familiar manic tics, like his string-pulling dance or his overreactions to ordinary audience responses.
The menu is split between familiar Thai dishes (yes, there's pad thai, and it's exceedingly good) and more exotic Lao-inspired fare from Isan.
Controlled by a keyboard or tablet computer, a digital globe can toggle between familiar, static images, like the world's political boundaries, topography or vegetation.
"From clever new twists on old favourites to ingenious use of new technologies, this selection strikes the balance between familiar brands and the new kids on the block".
Mr. Patten, whose research often focuses on new interfaces between familiar objects and computers, built the detector as a class project and has no plans to turn it into a commercial product.
Having worked Rabchenko hard, in between familiar gym banter stretching from Manchester City to masturbation, Hatton unleashes a torrent of words about his depression as soon as we reach the black leather sofas downstairs.
