Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18362-18366

  Steckenfinger, Shawn A ^a   Ghazanfar, Asif A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Audiovisual speech; Avatar; Face processing; Human robot interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EMOTION; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCANNY VALLEY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMOTIONS; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70849132272     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910063106     Document Type: Article

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