The human brain supports acquisition mechanisms that extract structural regularities implicitly from experience without the induction of an explicit model. It has been argued that the capacity to generalize to new input is based on the acquisition of abstract representations, which reflect underlying structural regularities in the input ensemble. In this study, we explored the outcome of this a...

While prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has different types of complexity. In this paper, we theorize how task and team familiarity interact with task and team coordination complexity to influence team performance. We posit that task familiarity is more ben...

The functional features of the opinion paper structure are revealed, its specificity is characterized. necessity a clear focus author's point view on analyzed problem from standpoint balanced review to stimulate scientific discussion emphasized. An helps demonstrate author regarding contribution presented general knowledge topic. Also, it serves as basis for revising an existing theory or conce...

Abstract The current research treated laughter as an indexical with two closely allied properties: to designate talk non-serious and serve a mode of address signalling preference for solidarity. These properties gave rise four discrete forms bout, solitary speaker, listener, speaker-initiated joint, listener-initiated joint laughter, which were examined using 55 same-gender pairs discussing thr...

This study reviews recent empirical results that show the relationship between shared experience and project performance to be negative. After discussing the difference between sharing experience across projects and interaction and learning within projects, I propose two ways that shared experience might create performance deficits. One is that shared experience carried forward from previous co...

BACKGROUND Admission to a nursing home is generally regarded as a stressful time for older people and their carers. Although the choice of home is significant in facilitating a more positive transition, few studies have explored this issue in detail, particularly in the context of rural communities. With a worldwide ageing population and an increasing demand for long-term care facilities, it is...

One's own name seems to have a special status in the processing of incoming information. In event-related potential (ERP) studies this preferential status has mainly been associated with higher P300 to one's own name than to other names. Some studies showed preferential responses to own name even for earlier ERP components. However, instead of just being self-specific, these effects could be re...

Previous studies on the effects of emotional context on memory for centrally presented neutral items have obtained inconsistent results. And in most of those studies subjects were asked to either make a connection between the item and the context at study or retrieve both the item and the context. When no response for the contexts is required, how emotional contexts influence memory for neutral...

The ability to recognize an individual from their voice is a widespread ability with a long evolutionary history. Yet, the perceptual representation of familiar voices is ill-defined. In two experiments, we explored the neuropsychological processes involved in the perception of voice identity. We specifically explored the hypothesis that familiar voices (trained-to-familiar (Experiment 1), and ...

This article reports 2 experiments in which nonfamous faces were paired with famous (e.g., Oprah Winfrey) or semifamous (e.g., Annika Sorenstam) faces during an initial orienting task. In Experiment 1, the orienting task directed participants to consider the relationship between the paired faces. In Experiment 2, participants considered distinctive qualities of the paired faces. Participants th...