Perceptual and category processing of the uncanny valley hypothesis' dimension of human likeness: Some methodological issues

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2013, Issue 76, 2013, Pages

  Cheetham, Marcus ^a   Jancke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avatar; Behavior; Categorical perception; Clinical techniques; fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human likeness; Imaging; Issue 76; Magnetic resonance imaging; Molecular biology; Mori; MRI; Neurobiology; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Perception; Psychology; Uncanny valley; Uncanny valley hypothesis; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FACE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; THEORY OF MIND; VISION;

BRAIN; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; THEORY OF MIND; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85003415132     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4375     Document Type: Article

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