Does the uncanny valley exist? An empirical test of the relationship between eeriness and the human likeness of digitally created faces

2013/01/16 by Tyler Burleigh, Tyler J. Burleigh, Jordan Richard Schoenherr +3 · 4 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Face Recognition and Perception

paper · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.11.021

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Citations

• The Uncanny Valley: Effect of Realism on the Impression of Artificial Human Faces
• Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences
• Is The Uncanny Valley An Uncanny Cliff?
• The Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Beauty
• The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

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• Reducing consistency in human realism increases the uncanny valley effect; increasing category uncertainty does not
• Uncanny valley [wikipedia]