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Modulating the Non-Verbal Social Signals of a Humanoid Robot [PDF]

, 2017
In this demonstration we present a repertoire of social signals generated by the humanoid robot Pepper in the context of the EU-funded project MuMMER. The aim of this research is to provide the robot with the expressive capabilities required to interact ...
Craenen, Bart, Deshmukh, Amol, Foster, Mary Ellen, Vinciarelli, Alessandro   +3 more
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Nostalgic Advertising Enhances Brand Name Recall by Reactivating Brand‐Related Autobiographical Memories, Especially for Familiar and Personally Relevant Brands

Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 12, Page 3306-3318, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Consumers are more likely to choose brands they recall easily, yet achieving brand name recall is increasingly difficult amid saturated markets and aging populations. While nostalgic advertising is known to boost persuasiveness, its role in enhancing brand awareness remains underexplored.
Dieter Thoma, Jessica Koziak
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Patterns of Structural and Functional Disruptions of PCN and DMN‐Related Regions: Longitudinal Evidence Reveals Cascading Network Dysregulation Across the AD Continuum

Med Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 424-439, December 2025.
A comprehensive graphical summary of the proposed work. ABSTRACT Precuneus dysfunction is a crucial biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD), playing a central role in AD continuum. However, the stage‐specific changes and temporal effects of structural and functional connectivity (FC) within para‐cingulate networks (PCNs), which are newly discovered and ...
Ruilin Chen, Guiyan Cai, Jingrou Huang, Yuanli Wang, Mianzhi Zhang, Lijie Zhang, Jingjie Wang, Hongrui Zhan, on behalf Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Consortium   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expressing Ethnicity through Behaviors of a Robot Character

, 2013
Achieving homophily, or association based on similarity, between a human user and a robot holds a promise of improved perception and task performance. However, no previous studies that address homophily via ethnic similarity with robots exist.
Makatchev, Maxim, Sakr, Majd, Simmons, Reid, Ziadee, Micheline   +3 more
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Recent Issues in High-Level Perception [PDF]

, 2016
Recently, several theorists have proposed that we can perceive a range of high-level features, including natural kind features (e.g., being a lemur), artifactual features (e.g., being a mandolin), and the emotional features of others (e.g., being ...
Helton, Grace
core   +1 more source

Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity.
Laura Rival
wiley   +1 more source

When facial expressions do and do not signal minds: the role of face inversion, expression dynamism, and emotion type [PDF]

, 2019
Recent research has linked facial expressions to mind perception. Specifically, Bowling and Banissy (2017) found that ambiguous doll-human morphs were judged as more likely to have a mind when smiling.
Hugenberg, Kurt, Krumhuber, Eva G, Lai, Yukun, Rosin, Paul   +3 more
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Before it's too late: The extinction script, multi‐species reproductive futurism and Extinction Rebellion

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract The belief that we have to act now to avoid a future lost knowingly to self‐inflicted extinction operates through what I term ‘the extinction script’. As a technology of power that regulates climate futures, the extinction script implores the already threatened subject to act now and to do so urgently.
Amy Robson
wiley   +1 more source

How voice and helpfulness shape perceptions in human–agent teams

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
Voice assistants are increasingly prevalent, from personal devices to team environments. This study explores how voice type and contribution quality influence human–agent team performance and perceptions of anthropomorphism, animacy, intelligence, and ...
Samuel Westby, Richard J. Radke, Christoph Riedl, Brooke Foucault Welles   +3 more
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.
Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
wiley   +1 more source