The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy.

ABSTRACT: Although robots are becoming an ever-growing presence in society, we do not hold the same expectations for robots as we do for humans, nor do we treat them the same. As such, the ability to recognize cues to human animacy is fundamental for guiding social interactions. We review literature that demonstrates cortical networks associated with person perception, action observation and mentalizing are sensitive to human animacy information. In addition, we show that most prior research has explored stimulus properties of artificial agents (humanness of appearance or motion), with less investigation into knowledge cues (whether an agent is believed to have human or artificial origins). Therefore, currently little is known about the relationship between stimulus and knowledge cues to human anima

SUBMITTER: Cross ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685521 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature