It's the sort of vista we've been seeing for years on news reports from the Middle East – the familiarity, the level of intricate detail, is weirdly unsettling.
The purpose of this part of the interview was to determine the participants' familiarity and level of expertise with electronic devices, the type and cost of devices currently being used by them, the most frequently performed tasks on these devices and the factors that they deem the most important for selecting and adopting a device.
These tasks involving the perception of faces imply different perceptual strategies among subjects that result from the different degree of familiarity or level of "expertise" that the person has with specific stimuli.
Descriptive statistics were calculated on demographic information, age, gender, program (e.g., MD vs. MD/PhD), familiarity with level of computers, time spent playing, age started playing games, and number of games owned.
The goal of the present study was to test the hypothesis that an important determinant of the differentiation between ventral and dorsal streams of auditory processing in the temporal lobe is the familiarity and level of expertise of listeners with the sounds.
"In our experience, this project takes no less than 200 person-hours to build, and depending on the familiarity and skill level of those involved could be significantly more," the project's creators write on the GitHub page.
Perhaps such familiarity bred the level of contempt that he needs to deal with Tea Party ugly.
For the first two trials, the participant was instructed to choose the easy and hard task respectively, in order to gain familiarity with the level of effort required for each task.
However, we also note that familiarity moderated the level of meal variety around which we observed convergence in our measures.
