Probing the uncanny valley with the eye size aftereffect

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 321-339

  Seyama, Jun'ichiro ^a   Nagayama, Ruth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan   (Japan)

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EID: 70449109393     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres.18.5.321     Document Type: Article

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