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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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Populating and Staying with Methodological Surprise

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This submission shares methodological experiments, cultivated in practices of composting by staying open to a surprise in art and design education research. Openness towards a surprise reduces a need to control a defining momentum of inquiry and instead welcomes composted and layered unknowns through multisensory learning experiences.
Mira Kallio‐Tavin, Mirka Koro
wiley   +1 more source

The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]

, 2013
The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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A Matter of Memory? Age‐Invariant Relative Clause Disambiguation and Memory Interference in Older Adults

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Past research suggests that Working Memory plays a role in determining relative clause attachment bias. Disambiguation preferences may further depend on Processing Speed and explicit memory demands in linguistic tasks. Given that Working Memory and Processing Speed decline with age, older adults offer a way of investigating the factors ...
Willem S. van Boxtel, Laurel A. Lawyer
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Subject-object asymmetries in the processing of European Portuguese cleft structures

Isogloss
This 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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Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Animacy restrictions without animacy features: The case of strong pronouns in French and Spanish

Glossa
When 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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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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Multi-Modal Inference in Animacy Perception for Artificial Object

i-Perception, 2011
Sometimes we feel animacy for artificial objects and their motion. Animals usually interact with environments through multiple sensory modalities.
Kohske Takahashi, Katsumi Watanabe
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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