Physical and Biological Constraints Govern Perceived Animacy of Scrambled Human Forms
Physical and Biological Constraints Govern Perceived Animacy of Scrambled Human Forms is a scholarly work by Steven M Thurman, published in 2013 in ''Psychological Science''. The main subjects of the publication include animacy, Archaeological natural, perception, embodied cognition, biological motion, artificial intelligence, consistency, origin of the domestic dog, Creatures, animation, cognitive psychology, motion, bird vocalization, communication, and psychology. The current study demonstrates that animacy ratings increase when a spatially scrambled animation of human walking maintains consistency with two fundamental constraints: the direction of gravity and congruency between the directions of intrinsic and extrinsic motion.