Word recognition is based on both perceptual-semantic familiarity (feeling of 'know') and accessing stored memory representations (remembering).
familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness.
Guessability of a sign varied with the five design features of; familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness, and semantic closeness of the sign.
In another study of the effects of sign characteristics on training effectiveness, Chan and Ng (2010) failed to observe effects of familiarity, concreteness, simplicity, meaningfulness and semantic closeness.
Another important feature of this study was the effort to balance several aspects of the two lexical classes (proper, common) and stimulus types (related, unrelated): written frequency of use, length, semantic associativeness, familiarity.
Semantic closeness was the best predictor of guessability score, followed by familiarity, meaningfulness, concreteness, and simplicity.
It is possible that children's activation in this region is particularly influenced by the demands on semantic and conceptual familiarity (hard > silly > easy), unlike adults who have a similar profile of activation for all 3 naming conditions.
Some authors put forward a modular account according to which episodic memory and recollection-based processes are crucially dependent on the hippocampal formation whereas semantic acquisition and familiarity-based processes rely on the adjacent parahippocampal gyri.
The present study aims to investigate whether previous findings are driven by the use of non-temporal strategies or whether the same pattern of brain regions is identified when relative familiarity and semantic narrative strategies are discouraged.
All items were balanced for length, frequency, familiarity and semantic relatedness.
To sum up, the pattern of brain activation observed in musicians compared to nonmusicians reflects a constant interaction between episodic and semantic memory during the familiarity task as suggested, for example, by the MNESIS model [43].
