Perception of Animacy from the Motion of a Single Object

By Patrice D. Tremoulet, J. Feldman. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Action understanding as inverse planning. (2009, background): “…inspired by stimuli from many previous studies with children and adults ( e.g. Gelman, Durgin, & Kaufman, 1995; Gergely et al., 1995; Heider & Simmel, 1944; Scholl & Tremoulet, 2000; Schultz et al., 2003; Schultz, Friston, Wolpert, & Frith, 2005; Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000, 2006; Zacks, 2004).”
Brand personality: A meta-analytic review of antecedents and consequences (2013, background): “Knowing that anthropomorphizing is more likely to occur when, for instance, an object shows movement (Tremoulet and Feldman 2000), is shaped like a person, and shows humanness, such as facial features, sounds, and intentionality (Dennett 1996), managers should consider creating “human” forms of…”
Accurate judgments of intention from motion cues alone: A cross-cultural study (2005, background): “…inferences and the development of such inferences in infancy (e.g., Csibra et al., 1999; Gergely, Nádasdy, Csibra, & Bíró , 1995; Opfer, 2003; Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000), intentionality inferences in nonhuman animals (Goto, Lea, & Dittrich, 2002), the brain regions underlying…”
On the nature and origin of intuitive theories : learning, physics and psychology (2015, background): “Again going back at least to Michotte [119] but continuing up to the present [148, 181, 47], the idea is that the trajectory of an object has certain properties that are picked up by fast perceptual detectors for distinguishing simple goals (“it wants to get there”), social goals (‘dancing’, ‘chasin”
A region of right posterior superior temporal sulcus responds to observed intentional actions. (2004, background): “In particular, so-called " violations of Newtonian mechanics " , such as a spontaneous start, stop, or change in acceleration, receive intentional explanations from fewer than half of observers (Gelman, Durgin, & Kaufman, 1995, see also Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000).”
Operant variability and voluntary action. (2010, background): “Unexpected or unpredictable changes in speed or angle of movement of an icon increase judgments of animacy (Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000).”
From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding (2012, background): “…the characteristics of movement that evoke the perception of a mind, including ‘‘non-Newtonian’’ velocity changes (Cicchino, Aslin, & Rakison, 2011; Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000), and movements that appear interactive and contingent (e.g., following, reacting – Blakemore et al., 2003; Scholl &…”
9 Perceiving Animacy and Intentionality: Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment? (2013, background): “Consistent with this discussion, it is perhaps also worth noting that the displays of Tremoulet and Feldman discussed in above (involving single moving dots that underwent a change in direction and/or speed; Tremoulet and Feldman, 2000 ) do not give rise to rich phenomenological percepts of animacy.”