Visual adaptation of the perception of “life”: Animacy is a basic perceptual dimension of faces

One critical component of understanding another’s mind is the perception of “life” in a face. However, little is known about the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this perception of animacy. Here, using a visual adaptation paradigm, we ask whether face animacy is (1) a basic dimension of fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Koldewyn, Kami, Hanus, Patricia, Balas, Benjamin
Other Authors: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105256