This prefrontal-hippocampal-VTA loop may play a crucial role for generating contextual familiarity which, in turn, promotes pattern completion during partial cue-based spatial memory recall through facilitation of dopamine-regulated attention [3], [14], [26], [28].
One wonders whether having seen at an early age the variety of fancy pigeons kept by his mother at home in Shrewsbury generated a familiarity that led Charles to experiments on pigeons as an adult.
Rather, these views may represent a sense of security generated by familiarity with the doctor as provider of care.
The positive feedback between learning and foraging therefore becomes amplified to a group level and can generate increased familiarity biases to high-quality resources.
This could be also due to the familiarity of songs generating inputs that led them to be more conscious of their bodies.
Because some left occipito-temporal areas may be specialized in visual word recognition and orthographic skills [ 65], the repetition of invariant perceptive elements may improve the level of expertise of the subjects or increase the level of familiarity and thereby generating greater activities at this location.
While action familiarity might facilitate predictive saccades because generating predictive saccades may require the availability of a motor program, action familiarity might also facilitate attention disengagement.
First is the question of which cognitive operation generates a sense of familiarity: the current debate revolves around whether familiarity arises in modality-specific recognition units or later amodal processes.
The more I think about that seam between the familiar and the unfamiliar — and how it feels to pass from one to the other — the clearer it becomes that humans instinctively generate a sense of familiarity.
Engaging with the data generates understanding, insight and familiarity, which are the building blocks of analysis.
