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"It is important to rule out possible effects of familiarity, since less familiar items may require more processing resources to be understood and elicit enhanced brain responses in several brain regions," Citron said.
In another study of the effects of sign characteristics on training effectiveness, Chan and Ng (2010) failed to observe effects of familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness and semantic closeness.
Since several species have been shown to develop preferences for familiar humans (Davis, 2002), in the future the effects of familiarity should be considered more carefully not only in corvid research but in the behavioural sciences in general.
In this manner, effects of familiarity and novelty on activation could be examined within and across task.
There were the significant effects of familiarity on behavioural responses in the novelty and conflict test.
Moreover, there were not only significant effects of familiarity but also a significant interaction between familiarity and group size on cardiac responses in the surprise and conflict tests.
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The experiment used a 2 × 2 × 2 repeated measures design, examining the effect of Familiarity (familiar, unfamiliar), Image Size (same-size, vary-size), and Repetition (same-identity and different-identity).
In order to test for the effects of familiarity-to-sender and sex-of-sender, the present playback paradigm includes calls (trill and tsak) from three different senders; unfamiliar males, unfamiliar females and familiar, same sex conspecifics (cage mate).
To determine effects of familiarity-to-sender, we directly compared the responses of each subject to the call of a familiar sender of the same sex (FS) with the responses to the call of an unfamiliar sender of the same sex (US; Figure 1).
The effect of familiarity seems to occur rapidly since responses to first presentation of familiar species are about 10% better than responses to first presentations of new species.
The ANOVA conducted on response times revealed (Figure 1B) (1) no main effect of group, F 1, 38) = 2.10, p = 0.1, (2) a main effect of familiarity ratings, F 3, 114) = 81.44, p<0.001, indicating the more familiar the melodies were, the shorter the response times and (3) no interaction effect between the group and familiarity ratings, F 3, 114) = 2.25, p<0.08.
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