Cognitive scientists, social psychologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, ethologists
and many others have all wondered how brains detect and interpret the motion of living …

Awards and Praise for the first edition: Recipient of the 2006 International Association for
Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award" This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to …

Argument structure-the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its
dependents-is at the base of syntactic theory and the theory of the interface with semantics …

We can identify social agents in our environment not only on the basis of how they look, but
also on the basis of how they move—and even simple geometric shapes can give rise to rich …

Since the seminal work of Heider and Simmel, and Michotte's research, many studies have
shown that, under appropriate conditions, displays of simple geometric shapes elicit rich and …

For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated
environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a …

Animation is a design element that has “eye-catching” appeal in the consumer attention
market. Businesses invest significant resources to incorporate animated elements in the …

Our knowledge of events and situations in the world plays a critical role in our ability to
understand what is happening around us, to predict what might happen next, and to …

The visual world is full of objects and it is an interesting fact that we can see more of that
world than we can understand at any given moment. Thus, looking at this picture of a park …

A new race of artifacts comes equipped with behavioral properties. Those properties
transmute the very nature of the object, granting it a life of its own and a special status that …