Stimulus-category competition, inhibition and affective devaluation: A novel account of the Uncanny Valley [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and nonhuman stimuli. Accounts of this Uncanny Valley effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses.
Anne E. Ferrey +2 more
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Neural correlates of the uncanny valley effect for robots and hyper-realistic masks. [PDF]
PLoS ONEViewing artificial objects and images that are designed to appear human can elicit a sense of unease, referred to as the 'uncanny valley' effect. Here we investigate neural correlates of the uncanny valley, using still images of androids (robots designed
Shona Fitzpatrick +6 more
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Avoidance of Novelty Contributes to the Uncanny Valley [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 A hypothesis suggests that objects with a high degree of visual similarity to real humans trigger negative impressions (i.e., the uncanny valley).
Kyoshiro Sasaki +4 more
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A reappraisal of the Uncanny Valley: Categorical perception or frequency-based sensitization? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley (UCV) hypothesis describes a non-linear relationship between perceived human-likeness and affective response. The uncanny valley refers to an intermediate level of human-likeness that is associated with strong negative affect.
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The development of the uncanny valley in infants. [PDF]
Dev Psychobiol, 2012 AbstractWhen adults view very realistic humanoid robots or computer avatars they often exhibit an aversion to them. This phenomenon, known as the “uncanny valley,” is assumed to be evolutionary in origin, perhaps tapping into modules for disgust or attractiveness that detect violations of our normal expectations regarding social signals.
Lewkowicz DJ, Ghazanfar AA.
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Psychological mechanisms linking AI hallucinations to user trust and behavioral intentions toward AI-generated videos: an S–O–R perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWith the widespread adoption of AI-generated videos in media content production, their visual credibility and the associated issues of user trust have attracted increasing attention.
Jun Liu, Yue Sun, Kaiqi Xiao
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A Bayesian Model of the Uncanny Valley Effect for Explaining the Effects of Therapeutic Robots in Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 One of the core features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is impaired reciprocal social interaction, especially in processing emotional information. Social robots are used to encourage children with ASD to take the initiative and to interact with the ...
Yuki Ueyama
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Circling Around the Uncanny Valley: Design Principles for Research Into the Relation Between Human Likeness and Eeriness [PDF]
i-Perception, 2016 The uncanny valley effect (UVE) is a negative emotional response experienced when encountering entities that appear almost human. Research on the UVE typically investigates individual, or collections of, near human entities but may be prone to ...
Stephanie Lay +3 more
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Persistence of the Uncanny Valley: the Influence of Repeated Interactions and a Robot's Attitude on Its Perception [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley theory proposed by Mori has been heavily investigated in the recent years by researchers from various fields. However, the videos and images used in these studies did not permit any human interaction with the uncanny objects. Therefore,
Jakub Aleksander Zlotowski +7 more
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The human likeness dimension of the "uncanny valley hypothesis": behavioural and functional MRI findings. [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2011 The uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori, 1970) predicts differential experience of negative and positive affect as a function of human likeness. Affective experience of realistic humanlike robots and computer-generated characters (avatars) dominates uncanny ...
Marcus eCheetham +2 more
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