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Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images [PDF]
eLifeSome objects appear ‘animate’ (e.g. dogs and elephants) while others do not (e.g. boots and sofas). This distinction pervades human cognition, with an expansive literature reporting striking effects of animacy on vision, memory, social perception, and ...
Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone
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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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Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures [PDF]
IsoglossThis study investigates the intervention effects on the processing of standard clefts by adult speakers of European Portuguese, focusing on the semantic feature of animacy.
Xinyi Li, Maria Lobo, Joana Teixeira
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Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish
GlossaWhen used as complements in prepositional phrases, French (and to a certain extent also Spanish) strong and null pronouns seem to differ in animacy: Typically, strong pronouns have human antecedents and null pronouns inanimate ones.
Steffen Heidinger, Yanis Da Cunha
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Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderstanding 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 PsychologyBiological 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 +7 more
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Automatic animacy classification for Dutch [PDF]
, 2013 We present an automatic animacy classifier for Dutch that can determine the animacy status of nouns - how alive the noun's referent is (human, inanimate, etc.).
Bloem, J. (Jelke),
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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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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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KONSEP ANIMASI DALAM NOMINA BAHASA JAWA: SEBUAH KAJIAN TIPOLOGI ANIMASI AWAL
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2021 This study discussed the animacy concept in Javanese. This is to show how the animacy concept is reflected on pronouns and parts of the body, and behavioral verbs (agentive) between human, animal, and thing.
Khristianto Khristianto +2 more
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