Facilitating animacy perception by manipulating stimuli exposure time [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Animacy perception—discriminating between animate and inanimate visual stimuli—is the basis for engaging in social cognition and for our survival (e.g., avoiding potential danger).
Toshiki Saito +4 more
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Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception [PDF]
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 +4 more
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Gravity-Dependent Animacy Perception in Zebrafish [PDF]
Research, 2022 Biological motion (BM), depicted by a handful of point lights attached to the major joints, conveys rich animacy information, which is significantly disrupted if BM is shown upside down.
Xiaohan Ma +7 more
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Chronic oxytocin administration in older men modulates functional connectivity during animacy perception [PDF]
Aging Brain, 2021 While aging is associated with social-cognitive change and oxytocin plays a crucial role in social cognition, oxytocin’s effects on the social brain in older age remain understudied.
Pedro A. Valdes-Hernandez +9 more
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Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe term “animacy perception” describes the ability of animals to detect cues that indicate whether a particular object in the environment is alive or not.
Massimo De Agrò +2 more
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Newborns’ sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The human visual system can discriminate between animate beings vs. inanimate objects on the basis of some kinematic cues, such as starting from rest and speed changes by self-propulsion.
Elisa Di Giorgio +3 more
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Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBiological motion (BM), the movement generated by living entities, transmits signals of life and conveys vital cues for animacy perception. In this review, we synthesize empirical findings from human and non-human animal studies to reveal how BM enjoys a
Li Shen +7 more
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A computational deep learning investigation of animacy perception in the human brain [PDF]
Communications BiologyThe functional organization of the human object vision pathway distinguishes between animate and inanimate objects. To understand animacy perception, we explore the case of zoomorphic objects resembling animals.
Stefanie Duyck +3 more
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Perception of animate motion in dogs [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyVarious motion cues can lead to the perception of animacy, including (1) simple motion characteristics such as starting to move from rest, (2) motion patterns of interactions like chasing, or (3) the motion of point-lights representing the joints of a ...
Judit Abdai
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Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderstanding how humans perceive animacy in dynamic visual stimuli is fundamental to elucidating the mechanisms underlying visual social cognition. While both object geometry and eye-like features are known to independently influence animacy impressions,
Takahiro Kawabe
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