Infants prefer the faces of strangers or mothers to morphed faces: an uncanny valley between social novelty and familiarity
The ‘uncanny valley’ response is a phenomenon involving the elicitation of a negative feeling and subsequent avoidant behaviour in human adults and infants as a result of viewing very realistic human-like robots or computer avatars. It is hypothesized that this uncanny feeling occurs because the rea...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
The Royal Society
2012
|
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440980/ |