A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley hypothesis, proposed already in the 1970s, suggests that almost but not fully humanlike artificial characters will trigger a profound sense of unease.
Jari eKätsyri +3 more
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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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Evaluating the replicability of the uncanny valley effect [PDF]
Heliyon, 2018 The uncanny valley (UV) effect refers to an eerie feeling of unfamiliarity people get while observing or interacting with robots that resemble humans almost but not quite perfectly.
Jussi Palomäki +7 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.
Tyler John Burleigh +1 more
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A Bayesian explanation of the 'Uncanny Valley' effect and related psychological phenomena. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2012 There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the ‘uncanny valley’ effect whereby a near human-looking artifact can trigger feelings of ...
Moore RK.
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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 Mismatch in the Human Realism of Face and Voice Produces an Uncanny Valley [PDF]
i-Perception, 2011 The uncanny valley has become synonymous with the uneasy feeling of viewing an animated character or robot that looks imperfectly human. Although previous uncanny valley experiments have focused on relations among a character's visual elements, the ...
Wade J Mitchell +5 more
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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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