In experiment I, experimental blocks in which novel images signaled monetary reward (CS+) and familiar images signaled no reward (CS−) alternated with blocks in which familiar images served as CS+ and novel images as CS−.
Diners are seeking comforting, familiar food served in a soothing atmosphere, and with patriotism high, these cozy American restaurants fit the current mood.
For Ramirez, the talk of performance-enhancing drugs was all too familiar — he served a 50-game ban earlier this season after officials learned he had been prescribed a fertility drug often used by bodybuilders once they stop using steroids.
Although the box was so marvellously small that it remained invisible even through the glass, he continued to make use of his teakwood viewer with the sloping top and movable lens, for the familiar apparatus served to concentrate his attention and steady his fingers.
While appreciating the public's hope of hearing that their loved ones "found happiness in fighting", or that they "died with a song on their lips", he is nevertheless determined to avoid the "old familiar phrases" served up to them by a compliant press, concluding: But we are poets, And shall tell the truth.
Animals kept without stress in a familiar environment served as controls.
In experiment I, novel or familiar images served as either positive (CS+) or negative (CS−) reinforcers.
Published by Tin Man Games, the results are a ridiculous (in all the best ways) reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the ability to abandon the familiar narrative serving to make you think about how it was constructed in the first place.
These humble, domestic, familiar materials serve a narrative function as metaphoric signifiers bridging and interweaving personal trauma with public catastrophe.
