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Disentangling five dimensions of animacy in human brain and behaviour

Communications Biology, 2022
An EEG, fMRI, and behavioural investigation of five object dimensions related to animacy provides insights into how distinct dimensions (and animacy) are represented in the brain and behaviour.
Kamila M. Jozwik, Elias Najarro, Jasper J. F. van den Bosch, Ian Charest, Radoslaw M. Cichy, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte   +5 more
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Animate or Inanimate: How Does Animacy Affect Relative Clauses Production for Indonesian and Foreign Learners

Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2023
In second language learning, relative clauses are widely studied. However, research comparing Indonesian and foreign learners’ clauses based on animacy has not been widely done.
Arti Prihatini, Fida Pangesti, Petrus Ari Santoso, Ho Ngoc Hieu   +3 more
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The role of inhibitory control in animacy effect: evidence from retrieval practice tasks

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2019
Animate stimuli are remembered better than inanimate stimuli. The proximate mechanism of this preferential retrieval of animate stimuli has not been clarified.
Jun Tao, Bilin Deng, Saisai Hu, Lin Xu
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Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception

iScience, 2023
Summary: Humans can distinguish flying birds from drones based solely on motion features when no image information is available. However, it remains unclear which motion features of animate motion induce our animacy perception.
Yifei Han, Wenhao Han, Liang Li, Tao Zhang, Yizheng Wang   +4 more
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When a stone tries to climb up a slope: The interplay between lexical and perceptual animacy in referential choices

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Several studies suggest that referential choices are influenced by animacy. On the one hand, animate referents are more likely to be mentioned as subjects than inanimate referents.
Jorrig eVogels, Emiel eKrahmer, Alfons eMaes   +2 more
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Thematic role assignment in non-default verb classes: A cross-linguistic comparison of English and German

Glossa, 2021
The influence of sentential cues (such as animacy and word order) on thematic role interpretation differs as a function of language (MacWhinney et al. 1984).
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Louise Kyriaki, Matthias Schlesewsky   +2 more
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Perceiving Animacy From Deformation and Translation

i-Perception, 2017
In a cartoon, we often receive an animacy impression from a dynamic nonanimate object, such as a sponge or a flour sack, which does not have an animal-like shape.
Takahiro Kawabe
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The animacy advantage in memory occurs under self-paced study conditions, but participants’ metacognitive beliefs can deter it

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionAnimacy distinguishes living (animate) things from non-living (inanimate) things. People tend to devote attention and processing to living over nonliving things, resulting in a privileged status for animate concepts in human cognition.
Michael J. Serra, Carlee M. DeYoung
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A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems

Linguistics, 2022
Northwestern Bantu is the most linguistically diverse area of the Bantu-speaking world. Several unusual grammatical gender systems are reported for this area, but there has been a lack of comprehensive comparative studies.
Di Garbo Francesca, Verkerk Annemarie
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Animacy Distinctions Arise from Iterated Learning

Open Linguistics, 2018
Linguistic animacy reflects a particular construal of biological distinctions encountered in the world, passed through cultural and cognitive filters. This study explores the process by which our construal of animacy becomes encoded in the grammars of ...
Vihman Virve-Anneli, Nelson Diane, Kirby Simon   +2 more
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