Perceiving Animacy From Deformation and Translation

In a cartoon, we often receive an animacy impression from a dynamic nonanimate object, such as a sponge or a flour sack, which does not have an animal-like shape. We hypothesize that the animacy impression of a nonanimal object could stem from dynamic patterns that are possibly fundamental for biolo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takahiro Kawabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517707767