Social perception : detection and interpretation of animacy, by M.D. Rutherford, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
By M.D. Rutherford, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier
Rutherford and Kuhlmeier current present study within the interdisciplinary box of social conception, together with the notion of organic movement, the belief of animacy, attributions of intentionality, and the advance of those mental processes.
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The nonlinear relation between the realism achieved by a computergraphics character and the comfort or discomfort that the observer experiences with it (sometimes termed the “uncanny valley”) might be a direct result of the level of consistency between the model that is applied to the stimulus and the stimulus itself. Models applied to aliens, monsters, and cartoon figures probably represent much broader probability distributions as compared to the well-defined, peaked correlations that form the models our visual system applies to real people.
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