We demonstrate that context effects on familiarity are diminished if the attentional impact of contextual stimuli is experimentally controlled, arguing that contextual influences on object familiarity are indirect and mediated by factors such as salience and attentional capture.
To our knowledge, very few studies on non-human animals have investigated the effect of familiarity on perceiving individuals' acoustic signals.
Here, two within-participant experiments are reported that measure the effect of familiarity on learning without the confound of these alternative effects.
To reveal the effect of familiarity on perceptual restoration we trained starlings in a general same/different-paradigm to report salient changes in the structure of successive sounds.
A 2 × 3 ANOVA (familiarity, condition) was carried out to examine the effect of familiarity on accuracy RT.
Although this observation accords with findings reported by others, 14 16 17 18 Hall and colleagues 6 observed a negative effect of familiarity on ratings.
While there is no evidence for a main effect of familiarity on collective performance, it may be the case that familiarity matters more for dissimilar than similar dyad members.
Using both our experimental data and a sophisticated database (DEAP dataset), we investigated the effects of familiarity on brain activity based on EEG signals.
Thus, to identify the brain regions associated with musical expertise during this familiarity task, we analyzed the effects of familiarity on cerebral activity based on the subject's response for each melody.
Testing research hypotheses generated from behavioral reinforcement theory and an alternative claim on the learning effect of familiarity with publishing norms, the study collects career history data and longitudinal records on faculty research performance to fill literature gaps.
