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[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi Michal
I think you have missed the point.

It is not about *liking* but *focussing*... (i.e. *noticing*?)...

If you look at a page of text, your *attention* will be more
attracted to an *unfamiliar* word or usage in the text, rather
than to any of the hundreds of word usages that you are already
familiar with?

>>From the point of view of animal development, the *new* is
uncategorised and therefore potentially dangerous, whereas
the *known* has already been categorised. For example, my
cats react immediately to sudden (new, unexpected) noises,
whereas they don't react to familiar/recurrent/continuous
noises. Similarly, they hardly react at all when family members
visit, but rush out into the garden if a new person comes through
the door.

best
ramesh

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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:51:24 -0400
From: Michal Ptaszynski <totorigami at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Fwd: examples of the use of the terms
        "prototypical" or "prototypicality"
To: "Kevin B. Cohen" <kevin.cohen at gmail.com>
Cc: Corpora List <corpora at uib.no>

> This is probably because humans, like all mammals, are hard-wired to focus on the new, the unusual and ignore what they think is normal."

Interesting, but I'd say it's actually the opposite. People like only those song which they have heard before :)

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Michal Ptaszynski

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