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The Interplay of Animacy and Thematic Role in Structural Persistence [PDF]
Models of human sentence production often propose a clear distinction between syntactic and semantic processes. We examined this assumption by investigating the interaction between animacy and thematic roles in active-passive structural priming.
Fukumura, Kumiko
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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 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 +2 more
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In the absence of animacy: superordinate category structure affects subordinate label verification.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli selected for test - with ...
Olivera Ilic, Vanja Kovic, Suzy J Styles
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The role of animacy in spatial transformations [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2010 We present evidence that different mental spatial transformations are used to reason about three different types of items representing a spectrum of animacy: human bodies, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects. Participants made two different judgments about rotated figures: handedness judgments ("Is this the left or right side?") and matching ...
Alfred B, Yu, Jeffrey M, Zacks
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite increasing interest in leveraging AI to improve CSR communication, there is limited understanding of consumers' reactions to chatbots in CSR communication. Building upon the HAII‐TIME model, this study proposes a theoretical model from the users' psychological perspective to explain facilitative pathways through which anthropomorphic ...
Yangzhi (Nicole) Jiang +2 more
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Animacy effects extend to working memory: results from serial order recall tasks
, 2019 Words that represent animate entities (e.g., dog) are recalled from long-term memory more accurately than words representing inanimate entities (e.g., pan). In this research, we examined whether the animacy effect extends to working memory (WM).
Murphy, Karen +2 more
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Animals, animacy and anthropocentrism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores various ways in which contemporary British English depicts degrees of animacy among nonhuman animals, and demonstrates the anthropocentric qualities of much discourse about animals.
Alison Sealey, Sealey, Alison Jean
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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How Does Your Brain See “Living” Circles: A Study of Animacy and Intention Using fMRI
i-Perception, 2011 It is widely reported that the perception of animacy can occur from simple displays of moving shapes with participants attributing such qualities as goals, beliefs, and intentions.
P McAleer, M Becirspahic, S Love
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