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Here, we examined this hypothesis by presenting human participants with target stimuli that were embedded in rapid streams of familiar or novel distractor stimuli at different speeds of presentation, while recording brain activity using magnetoencephalography and measuring behavioral performance. We investigated the temporal and spatial dynamics of signal truncation and whether this phenomenon bears relationship to participants' ability to categorize target items within a visual stream. Behaviorally, target categorization performance was markedly better when the target was embedded within familiar distractors, and this benefit became more pronounced with increasing speed of presentation. Familiar distractors showed a truncation of neural activity in the visual system. This truncation was strongest for the fastest presentation speeds and peaked in progressively more anterior cortical regions as presentation speeds became slower. Moreover, the neural response evoked by the target was stronger when this target was preceded by familiar distractors. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that item familiarity results in a truncated neural response, is associated with stronger processing of relevant target information, and leads to superior perceptual performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1162\/jocn_a_01507","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,25]],"date-time":"2019-11-25T19:36:44Z","timestamp":1574710604000},"page":"722-733","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/mitpressjournals.corrections.policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Familiarity Increases Processing Speed in the Visual System"],"prefix":"10.1162","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Mariya E.","family":"Manahova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour"}]},{"given":"Eelke","family":"Spaak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour"}]},{"given":"Floris P.","family":"de Lange","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour"}]}],"member":"281","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2022042815031435500_bib1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Anderson,  B., Mruczek,  R. 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