Creepy cats and strange high houses: Support for configural processing in testing predictions of nine uncanny valley theories
Abstract
In 1970, Masahiro Mori proposed the uncanny valley (UV), a region in a human-likeness continuum where an entity risks eliciting a cold, eerie, repellent feeling. Recent studies have shown that this feeling can be elicited by entities modeled not only on humans but also nonhuman animals. The perceptual and cognitive mechanisms underlying the UV effect are not well understood, although many theories have been proposed to explain them. To test the...
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Title
Creepy cats and strange high houses: Support for configural processing in testing predictions of nine uncanny valley theories
Published Date
Apr 1, 2021
Journal
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
1 - 1
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