As one gains greater control over a language, both performance and the underlying neural substrates change to reflect increased proficiency, and presumably, more automatic processing [2], [4], [8], [10], [32] [34].
Repetition creates neural pathways in the brain, so the behavior eventually becomes more automatic and outside distractions have less impact.
Mindfulness techniques strengthen desirable neural pathways in the brain that grow stronger and become more automatic with practice.
This "lexical MMN" enhancement is thought to index automatic neural activation of existing unitary memory representations of known words that are stronger for more frequently used items than infrequent ones, and not present for meaningless pseudo-words.
Modern neural rehabilitation heavily relies on the advances of neural computational techniques in diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation, which promise the future rehabilitation to be more automatic, economical, and convenient.
The behaviour becomes more automatic with each repetition.
So shoppers might expect even more automatic checkouts, for example.
Over time, this loop — cue, routine, reward; cue, routine, reward — becomes more and more automatic.
These findings are consistent with both a dual process model of semantic priming and recent repetition priming data that suggest that reductions in BOLD responses represent neural priming associated with automatic semantic activation and implicate the left middle temporal cortex and inferior prefrontal cortex in more automatic aspects of semantic processing.
This motivates the study of more automatic design methods.
