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Erratum to “Gravity-Dependent Animacy Perception in Zebrafish” [PDF]

Research, 2023
Xiaohan Ma, Xiangyong Yuan, Jiahuan Liu, Li Shen, Yiwen Yu, Wen Zhou, Zuxiang Liu, Yi Jiang   +7 more
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When sounds come alive: animacy in the auditory sense [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Despite the interest in animacy perception, few studies have considered sensory modalities other than vision. However, even everyday experience suggests that the auditory sense can also contribute to the recognition of animate beings, for example through
Stefano Gonan, Giorgio Vallortigara, Cinzia Chiandetti   +2 more
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The rediscovery of Fritz Heider’s early social cognition: a person-centered perspective [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
In this article, we situate the social psychologist and philosopher Fritz Heider’s theory within what we call “early social cognition,” a historical approach preceding and radically differing from contemporary “social cognition.” By incorporating recent ...
Yaming Shang, Da Dong, Da Dong, Wei Chen, Wei Chen   +4 more
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Perception of animacy leads to expectation of goal-directed behaviour in dogs [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Human newborns preferentially attend to self-propelled objects, and three-month-olds expect them to act in a goal-directed manner. Dogs also prefer animate objects, and anticipate human actions to be goal-driven, but it is unclear whether perceiving an ...
Zsuzsanna Gedai, Ádám Miklósi, Judit Abdai   +2 more
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Animacy processing by distributed and interconnected networks in the temporal cortex of monkeys [PDF]

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Animacy perception, the ability to discern living from non-living entities, is crucial for survival and social interaction, as it includes recognizing abstract concepts such as movement, purpose, and intentions.
Rizal Ichwansyah, Rizal Ichwansyah, Keigo Onda, Keigo Onda, Jun Egawa, Takeshi Matsuo, Takafumi Suzuki, Toshiyuki Someya, Isao Hasegawa, Keisuke Kawasaki   +9 more
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Editorial: Animacy in cognition: effects, mechanisms, and theories [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Michael J. Serra, Josefa N. S. Pandeirada, Joshua E. VanArsdall   +2 more
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Perceiving animacy from kinematics: visual specification of life-likeness in simple geometric patterns

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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Seeing Seeing [PDF]

, 2020
I argue that we can visually perceive others as seeing agents. I start by characterizing perceptual processes as those that are causally controlled by proximal stimuli.
Phillips, Ben
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Animacy Processing in Autism: Event-Related Potentials Reflect Social Functioning Skills

Brain Sciences, 2023
Though previous studies with autistic individuals have provided behavioral evidence of animacy perception difficulties, the spatio-temporal dynamics of animacy processing in autism remain underexplored.
Eleni Peristeri, Maria Andreou, Smaranda-Nafsika Ketseridou, Ilias Machairas, Valentina Papadopoulou, Aikaterini S. Stravoravdi, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Christos A. Frantzidis   +7 more
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Visual adaptation of the perception of “life”: Animacy is a basic perceptual dimension of faces [PDF]

, 2016
One critical component of understanding another’s mind is the perception of “life” in a face. However, little is known about the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this perception of animacy.
Balas, Benjamin, Hanus, Patricia, Koldewyn, Kami   +2 more
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