First, the assumption that the two tasks invoked intrinsically different decision rules was tested through the use of the same decision rule in the OOO task as in the familiarity task: simply choosing the most familiar face, or conversely the least familiar face, as the odd one out.
After a short filled interval (∼10 min), participants were presented with two recognition conditions, a novelty task (NT) emphasizing the detection of novel stimuli, and a familiarity task (FT) emphasizing the detection of familiar stimuli.
Task content familiarity, task type, and efficacy of recasts.
The prescreening questionnaire consisted of demographics (age and gender), the SBSOD scale (Hegarty et al., 2006), and a familiarity task.
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".
In the concept familiarity task, the participants were asked to judge the familiarity of the concept of each picture according to their own experience.
In order to identify brain regions associated with musical expertise during the familiarity task, we then performed this analysis comparing musicians and nonmusicians.
Thus, using fMRI, we examined for the first time this process during a musical familiarity task (i.e., semantic memory for music).
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.
During the scanning session, all participants were tested on a familiarity task, in which they had to judge the level of familiarity of 60 excerpts of melodies on a 4-point scale.
