Perceptual discrimination difficulty and familiarity in the Uncanny Valley: More like a ‘Happy Valley’.

Perceptual discrimination difficulty and familiarity in the Uncanny Valley: More like a ‘Happy Valley’.

The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis (UVH) predicts that enhanced difficulty perceptually discriminating between categorically ambiguous human and humanlike characters (e.g., highly realistic robot) evokes negatively valenced (i.e., uncanny) experience. An ABX perceptual discrimination task and signal dete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marcus eCheetham, Pascal eSuter, Lutz eJancke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Categorization
categorical perception
human likeness
other-race effect
Anthropomorphism
uncanny valley
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01219/full

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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01219/full

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