Feeling robots and human zombies: Mind perception and the uncanny valley

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-130

  Gray, Kurt ^a   Wegner, Daniel M ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Human computer interaction; Humanness; Robots; Turing test; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SENSATION;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; ROBOTICS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84865292141     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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