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Neuroepigenetic impact on mentalizing in childhood
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022 Mentalizing, or the ability to understand the mental states and intentions of others, is an essential social cognitive function that children learn and continue to cultivate into adolescence.
Amalia M. Skyberg +6 more
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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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You made him be alive: Children’s perceptions of animacy in a humanoid robot [PDF]
, 2017 Social robots are becoming more sophisticated; in many cases they offer complex, autonomous interactions, responsive behaviors, and biomimetic appearances.
A Sharkey +27 more
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Consciousness and Knowledge [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter focuses on the relationship between consciousness and knowledge, and in particular on the role perceptual consciousness might play in justifying beliefs about the external world.
Brogaard, Berit, Chudnoff, Elijah
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Perception of animacy and direction from local biological motion signals
Journal of Vision, 2008 We present three experiments that investigated the perception of animacy and direction from local biological motion cues. Coherent and scrambled point-light displays of humans, cats, and pigeons that were upright or inverted were embedded in a random dot mask and presented to naive observers.
Chang, Dorita H.F., Troje, Nikolaus F.
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Animacy, motion, emotion and empathy in visual music: Enhancing appreciation of abstracted animation through wordless song [PDF]
, 2016 This paper will discuss the exploration of key musical and visual parameters with the aim of enhancing the appreciation of Abstracted Animation [1] with varying degrees of animacy.
Watkins, Julie
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Perception of Animacy from the Motion of a Single Object
Perception, 2000 We demonstrate that a single moving object can create the subjective impression that it is alive, based solely on its pattern of movement. Our displays differ from conventional biological motion displays (which normally involve multiple moving points, usually integrated to suggest a human form) in that they contain only a single rigid object moving ...
P D, Tremoulet, J, Feldman
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Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making
Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2013 Perception, judgment, and reasoning are all processes that are sensitive to cues to animacy (i.e. the presence of signals that indicate an object behaves as if it has intentions and internal goals).
Magda Osman, Alexandros Ananiadis-Basias
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Speed and direction changes induce the perception of animacy in 7-month-old infants
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 A large body of research has documented infants’ ability to classify animate and inanimate objects based on static or dynamic information. It has been shown that infants less than one year of age transfer animacy-specific expectations from dynamic point ...
Birgit eTräuble +2 more
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