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

The ability to recognize animate agents based on their motion has been investigated in
humans and animals alike. When the movements of multiple objects are interdependent …

Various motion cues can lead to the perception of animacy, including (1) simple motion
characteristics such as starting to move from rest,(2) motion patterns of interactions like …

The study of gaze responses, typically using looking time paradigms, has become a popular
approach to improving our understanding of cognitive processes in non-verbal individuals …

Certain motion cues like self-propulsion and speed changes allow human and nonhuman
animals to quickly detect animate beings. In the current eye-tracking study, we examined …

Self-propelled motion cues elicit the perception of inanimate objects as animate. Studies
usually rely on the looking behaviour of subjects towards stimuli displayed on a screen, but …

It was long assumed that only humans can distinguish the living from the dead. Renewed
interest in this question over the last decade has led several authors to assert that non …

Perception of inanimate objects as animate based on motion cues alone seems to be
present in phylogenetically distant species, from birth (humans and chicks). However, we do …

Chasing motion is often used to study the perception of inanimate objects as animate. When
chasing interaction and independent motions between two agents are displayed …

Navigation skills are essential for most social and service robotics applications. The robots
that are currently in practical use in various complex human environments are generally very …