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It matters to me if you are human: Categorical perception in human and nonhuman agent spectra

2019-04-25

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<p>Humanlike but not perfectly human agents frequently evoke feelings of eeriness, a phenomenon termed the Uncanny Valley (UV). The Categorical Perception Hypothesis proposes that effects associated with the UV are due to uncertainty as to whether to categorize agents falling into the valley as “human” or “nonhuman”. However, since UV studies have traditionally looked at agents of varying human-likeness, it remain...

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Literature Corpus work: 2a8f537a-2f45-51a3-b1aa-0596958351e1
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/swe5v

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