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A computational deep learning investigation of animacy perception in the human brain [PDF]

Communications Biology
The 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, Andrea I. Costantino, Stefania Bracci, Hans Op de Beeck   +3 more
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Intact animacy perception during chase detection in ASD [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2017
AbstractWe explored the strength of implicit social inferences in adolescents with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) using a chasing paradigm in which participants judged the absence/presence of a chase within a display of four seemingly randomly moving dots.
Vanmarcke, Steven, Van de Cruys, Sander, Moors, Pieter, Wagemans, Johan   +3 more
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Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Biological 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, Li Shen, Xinlin Yang, Xinlin Yang, Yi Jiang, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang, Ying Wang   +7 more
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Selective Attention Dynamically Modulates the Hierarchical Order of Perceptual and Conceptual Representations [PDF]

Human Brain Mapping, Volume 46, Issue 14, 01 October 2025.
Using MEG and multivariate decoding, we show that selective attention alters the temporal dynamics of perceptual and conceptual object features. Attention led to earlier representation of conceptual features during perception and prioritized perceptual reconstruction during memory retrieval, highlighting its role in shaping the temporal flow of feature
Yu Zhou, Liang Zhang, Nikolai Axmacher, Daniel Pacheco Estefan, Dahui Wang, Yujian Dai, Xiaojing Peng, Shixiang Liu, Gui Xue   +8 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Perception of animate motion in dogs [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Various 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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Influence of Wine Label Imagery: Eye‐Tracking Evidence and Regulatory Implications [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction The visual design of alcohol beverage packaging plays a crucial role in shaping consumer perceptions and purchase decisions, yet regulations in many countries are relatively lax. Guidelines often focus on the inclusion of health warnings rather than overall label or packaging design, giving producers considerable freedom.
Olivier Droulers, Arnaud Bigoin Gagnan, Sophie Lacoste‐Badie   +2 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Understanding 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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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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