Perceptual causality and animacy.

By Brian J. Scholl, Patrice D. Tremoulet. 2000

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Machine Theory of Mind (2018, background): “Third, there are many other dimensions over which we may wish to characterise agents, such as whether they are animate or inanimate (Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000), prosocial or adversarial (Ullman et al., 2009), reactive or able to plan (Sutton & Barto, 1998).”
Behavioral cues to others’ motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion (2007, methodology): “These behavioral cues to perceived intentionality are used in a rather automatic way (for a review, see Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000).”
The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species (2015, background): “Humans use motion as a cue for intention and emotion attribution (for a review, see Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000), which has led some authors to suggest the presence of a bias for the representation of recurring patterns of interactions over their evolutionary history (Barrett, 2005; Barrett et al.,…”
Inference or interaction: social cognition without precursors (2008, background): “This is a perceptual capacity that is ‘fast, automatic, irresistible and highly stimulus-driven’ (Scholl and Tremoulet 2000 , 299).”
Metaphors and the market: Consequences and preconditions of agent and object metaphors in stock market commentary (2007, background): “Stimulus displays in which a moving shape ascends over an obstacle are processed as action, even by infants who have had little opportunity to learn from experience (see Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000).”
Automatic Constructive Appraisal as a Candidate Cause of Emotion (2010, neutral): “Moreover, given certain characteristics of movements, people even spontaneously attribute intentionality to non-living entities (see review by Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000).”
Who Sees Human? (2010, background): “…reasoning about biological kinds (Anggoro, Waxman, & Medin, 2008; Waxman & Medin, 2007), and developmental psychologists have assessed children’s capacity to perceive humanlike intentions in nonhuman stimuli (Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000) in the trajectory of learning to reason about mental states.”
Perceiving affect from arm movement. (2001, background): “Such a question lies on the seldom explored borders of research into animacy and biological motion (for a recent review on animacy see Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000 ).”
Whose job is it anyway? a study of human-robot interaction in a collaborative task (2004, background): “Because of their ability to move with apparent intentionality in physical space, they are likely to be perceived as animate, triggering social responses (for a review, see Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000 ).”
Matching robot appearance and behavior to tasks to improve human-robot cooperation (2003, background): “Even as infants, people automatically perceive objects that make lifelike movements as living things [23].”