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The nature of the animacy organization in human ventral temporal cortex

eLife, 2019
The principles underlying the animacy organization of the ventral temporal cortex (VTC) remain hotly debated, with recent evidence pointing to an animacy continuum rather than a dichotomy. What drives this continuum?
Sushrut Thorat, Daria Proklova, Marius V Peelen   +2 more
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Featuring animacy

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2015
Algonquian languages are famous for their animacy-based grammatical properties—an animacy based noun classification system and direct/inverse system which gives rise to animacy hierarchy effects in the determination of verb agreement.
Elizabeth Ritter
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Perceiving animacy from shape [PDF]

Journal of Vision, 2017
Superordinate visual classification—for example, identifying an image as “animal,” “plant,” or “mineral”—is computationally challenging because radically different items (e.g., “octopus,” “dog”) must be grouped into a common class (“animal”).
Fleming, Roland W., Hegele, Mathias, Schmidt, Filipp   +2 more
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Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Understanding how humans perceive animacy in dynamic visual stimuli is fundamental to elucidating the mechanisms underlying visual social cognition. While both object geometry and eye-like features are known to independently influence animacy impressions,
Takahiro Kawabe
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Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Biological motion (BM), the movement generated by living entities, transmits signals of life and conveys vital cues for animacy perception. In this review, we synthesize empirical findings from human and non-human animal studies to reveal how BM enjoys a
Li Shen, Li Shen, Xinlin Yang, Xinlin Yang, Yi Jiang, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang, Ying Wang   +7 more
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Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
The term “animacy perception” describes the ability of animals to detect cues that indicate whether a particular object in the environment is alive or not.
Massimo De Agrò, Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona, Giorgio Vallortigara   +2 more
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Animacy processing by distributed and interconnected networks in the temporal cortex of monkeys [PDF]

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Animacy perception, the ability to discern living from non-living entities, is crucial for survival and social interaction, as it includes recognizing abstract concepts such as movement, purpose, and intentions.
Rizal Ichwansyah, Rizal Ichwansyah, Keigo Onda, Keigo Onda, Jun Egawa, Takeshi Matsuo, Takafumi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Someya, Isao Hasegawa, Keisuke Kawasaki   +9 more
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Perception of animate motion in dogs [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Various motion cues can lead to the perception of animacy, including (1) simple motion characteristics such as starting to move from rest, (2) motion patterns of interactions like chasing, or (3) the motion of point-lights representing the joints of a ...
Judit Abdai
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Why are human animacy judgments continuous rather than categorical? A computational modeling approach

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThe concept of animacy is often taken as a basic natural concept, in part I because most cases seem unambiguous. Most entities either are or are not animate. However, human animacy judgments do not reflect this binary classification.
Chris Westbury
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Perceiving animacy from kinematics: visual specification of life-likeness in simple geometric patterns

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Since the seminal work of Heider and Simmel, and Michotte’s research, many studies have shown that, under appropriate conditions, displays of simple geometric shapes elicit rich and vivid impressions of animacy and intentionality.
Giulia Parovel
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