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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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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
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The effects of animacy in the choice of referring expression
, 2011 Theories of reference assume that the referent's salience in the discourse context affects the choice between pronouns and definite noun phrases or names.
van Gompel, Roger +5 more
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Noun and Verb (Re)learning: A Comparative Perspective on Acquisition and Post‐Stroke Aphasia
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT Nouns and verbs are fundamental building blocks of language, yet they exhibit important asymmetries. In language acquisition, nouns typically enter young children's lexicon earlier and are acquired more easily, while verbs are learned later and with greater difficulty.
Ran Li, Angela Xiaoxue He
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Animacy is an ontological category or semantic feature based on which nouns and their referents are classified as human or non-human, and as animate or inanimate.
Karatsareas, P.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 6466-6483, September 2026.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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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Evidence of Animacy Effects in Novel Word Learning via Fast Mapping and Explicit Encoding in Adults
Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2020 Introduction Animacy effects refer to the processing advantage of animate concepts over inanimate concepts, and this effect has been studied using episodic memory tasks. However, animacy effects in the context of novel word learning, specifically through
Mohan P. Manju +2 more
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History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 344-367, September 2026.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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