In most of the cases mentioned above, familiarity also involves self-similarity (i.e., we are familiar with our own accent, capital, president, etc).. Thus, it seems that self-similarity is a factor related with high-efficiency communication.
Since we controlled for names of relatives and friends, in the active condition only stimuli of comparable familiarity were involved and hence familiarity cannot account for the differences between targets and non-targets.
The familiarity task involved a labeled map of the UCSB campus and surrounding neighborhoods, divided into 12 areas labeled only as "Area A" through "Area L".
It's also been shown that familiarity (which presumably involves enhanced sensorimotor activation) activates premotor cortex more than non-familiar actions [ 33].
A full understanding of some concept, then, involves familiarity with it in day-to-day encounters, the ability to offer some general definition of it, and knowing what effects to expect from holding that concept to be true.
This involves familiarity with the medical and social research literature, the industry's trade media, and research using the industry's internal documents.
It usually involves cultivating familiarity and intimacy with aspects of everyday experience that we often take for granted.
In conversation with Western clients, Indian customer service agents proclaim their legitimacy, an effort Mirchandani calls "authenticity work," which involves establishing familiarity in light of expectations of difference.
An empirical study of familiarity is presented involving a group of seniors learning to use a personal computer and the services it provides.
Qualifications: The desired qualifications/skills include familiarity with issues involved in migration (why people migrate to the U.S. for example, how they're received once they arrived to the U.S). and theories and experiences of movement/relocation/displacement of indigenous people.
