Emotion expression modulates perception of animacy from faces
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.02.004
Abstract: Discriminating real human faces from artificial can be achieved quickly and accurately by face-processing networks, but less is known about what stimulus qualities or interindividual differences in the perceiver might influence whether a face is… read more here.
Keywords: emotion expression; animacy; modulates perception; perception ... See more keywords
A neurophysiological study of noun-adjective agreement in Arabic: The impact of animacy and diglossia on the dynamics of language processing
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100964
Abstract: Abstract We used event-related brain potentials to identify the neurophysiological responses of Arabic speakers to processing full and deflected agreement in plural noun-adjective constructions in (written) Standard Arabic. Under full agreement, an adjective fully agrees… read more here.
Keywords: agreement; animacy; deflected agreement; language processing ... See more keywords
“It is alive!” Evidence for animacy effects in semantic categorization and lexical decision
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716419000092
Abstract: Abstract Animacy is one of the basic semantic features of word meaning and influences perceptual and episodic memory processes. However, evidence that this variable also influences lexicosemantic processing is mixed. As animacy is a semantic… read more here.
Keywords: semantic categorization; animacy; categorization; evidence ... See more keywords
Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic: Neurolinguistic Evidence from a Comparative Study on Standard German, Zurich German, and Fering (North Frisian)
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542719000199
Abstract: To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic… read more here.
Keywords: animacy; german fering; case; fering north ... See more keywords
Animacy effects extend to working memory: results from serial order recall tasks
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DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1699574
Abstract: ABSTRACT Words that represent animate entities (e.g., dog) are recalled from long-term memory more accurately than words representing inanimate entities (e.g., pan). In this research, we examined whether the animacy effect extends to working memory… read more here.
Keywords: animacy; animacy effects; recall; serial order ... See more keywords
Are animates special? Exploring the effects of selective attention and animacy on visual statistical learning
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DOI: 10.1177/17470218221074686
Abstract: Our visual system is built to extract regularities in how objects in our visual environment appear in relation to each other across time and space (“visual statistical learning”). Existing research indicates that visual statistical learning… read more here.
Keywords: visual statistical; animacy; selective attention; statistical learning ... See more keywords
EXPRESS: Neutral animals matter: Animacy modulates object-based attentional allocation.
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DOI: 10.1177/17470218221095743
Abstract: Animacy plays an essential role in survival and adaptive behavior. Previous studies have found that dangerous or threatening animals can capture and hold attention. However, it is unclear whether and how neutral animate objects guide… read more here.
Keywords: neutral animals; attentional allocation; animacy; animate objects ... See more keywords
EXPRESS: Does Animacy Affect Visual Statistical Learning? Revisiting the Effects of Selective Attention and Animacy on Visual Statistical Learning.
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DOI: 10.1177/17470218231173883
Abstract: Animates receive preferential attentional processing over inanimates because, from an evolutionary perspective, animates are important to human survival. We investigated whether animacy affects visual statistical learning-the detection and extraction of regularities in visual information from… read more here.
Keywords: selective attention; animacy; affect visual; visual statistical ... See more keywords
Perceiving Animacy in Own-and Other-Species Faces
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00029
Abstract: Though artificial faces of various kinds are rapidly becoming more and more life-like due to advances in graphics technology (Suwajanakorn et al., 2015; Booth et al., 2017), observers can typically distinguish real faces from artificial… read more here.
Keywords: animacy species; animacy; perceiving animacy; group ... See more keywords
A direct replication and extension of Popp and Serra (2016, experiment 1): better free recall and worse cued recall of animal names than object names, accounting for semantic similarity
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146200
Abstract: Introduction Free recall tends to be better for names of animate concepts such as animals than for names of inanimate objects. In Popp and Serra’s 2016 article, the authors replicated this “animacy effect” in free… read more here.
Keywords: recall; similarity; effect; animacy ... See more keywords