Another fMRI study reported the role of familiarity in the brain's correlation of music appreciation and suggested that music familiarity is related to limbic, paralimbic, and reward circuitries [7].
It also plays an appreciable role in familiarity processes for these stimuli.
Role of familiarity on effects of caffeine- and glucose-containing soft drinks PHYSIOL BEHAV XX(X) 000-000, 200X.
The role of familiarity and the effects of caffeine and glucose in Lucozade Energy were investigated by testing this familiar soft drink, and its non-caffeine/non-CHO placebo match, against novel coloured/flavoured full and placebo drinks.
Three different sorts of unifacial stone tool allometric patterns – representing three different sorts of flake design and exploitation patterns – are used to consider the role landscape familiarity plays in producing variability in hunter gatherer lithic technologies.
Visual search and attentional bias for smoking cues: the role of familiarity.
The feature of power for each scenario is based on the values attributed to role and familiarity, accompanied by the balance of power that would generally be expected in such scenarios.
The role of familiarity with the linguistic feature was also dubious; for a group of students, the earlier knowledge of grammatical feature lead to higher rating of the task in terms of enjoyment, ease, performance and persuasion, whereas for some other learners, the former acquaintance with the linguistic feature in focus resulted in lower mean values for the aforementioned criteria.
In fMRI studies, perceiving experimentally learned faces activates the precuneus, supporting its role in familiarity processing, long-term memory retrieval and imagery [2], [7].
The role of familiarity differences in previous studies of auditory-evoked human amygdala responses is less clear and could explain why amygdala-deactivation was found when subjects listened to highly familiar music in contrast to music selected by the other participants [14].
