Instinctively responding to maternal face is an evolutionary function of enhancing survival and development. However, because of the confounding nature of familiarity, little is known concerning the neural mechanism involved in maternal face recognition. We had a rare opportunity to examine Mosuo preschool children who were raised in a matrilineal society in which mothers and aunts represent eq...

A web-based survey estimated the distribution of voice recognition abilities with a focus on determining the prevalence of developmental phonagnosia, the inability to identify a familiar person based on their voice. Participants matched clips of 50 celebrity voices to 1-4 named headshots of celebrities whose voices they had previously rated for familiarity. Given a strong correlation between ra...

OBJECTIVE The retrieval deficit hypothesis states that the lack of deficit in recognition often observed in patients with Parkinson's disease is because of the low retrieval requirements of the task, given that these patients have retrieval and not encoding deficits. To test this hypothesis we investigated recognition memory by familiarity in Parkinson's patients and in patients with Lewy Bodie...

In several previous behavioral studies, we have identified a group of amnestic patients that, behaviorally, appear to exhibit severe deficits in recollection with relative preservation of familiarity-based recognition. However, these studies have relied exclusively on behavioral measures, rather than direct measures of physiology. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used to identify putat...

INTRODUCTION Crew familiarity, in terms of having recent operational experience together as a crew, is seen as an important safety-related variable. However, little evidence exists to unpack the underlying processes with respect to familiarity. This study investigated the relationships between crew familiarity, non-technical performance, and error management. METHOD Data were collected during...

Abstract A key issue facing cybercrime investigations is connecting online identities to real‐world identities. This paper shows that by combining the Fringe‐P3 method with a concealed information test, we can detect participant's familiarity their own email address, thus identity one. Participants were shown Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) streams of addresses, some including address (...

the present study investigates the feasibility of implementing marketing principles within the academic libraries of government-sponsored universities in tehran. the study focused on the attitude of library managers towards this issue. a survey method, using a questionnaire as a data collection tool was used. findings demonstrated that the level of managerial familiarity with the concept of mar...

Individuals who are more motivated to avoid pathogenic infection tend be opposed immigrants. Explanations for this relation emphasize lack of familiarity, with people unfamiliar ethnic outgroups being likely perceive them as a possible risk and therefore oppose immigration. Exposure immigrants can increase familiarity outgroup members. This suggests that exposure attenuates the relationship bet...