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Monkeys Repulsed by CGI Monkey Renderings...Just Like We Were to the Polar Express
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:54 AM EDT
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The response takes its name from a graph ([image in article]) of human emotional response as a function of a depiction's human-likeness. As human-likeness increases, a positive emotional response also increases, until likeness reaches somewhere around 80 percent, then the emotional response shoots down to revulsion on par with viewing a human corpse.
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To test their preference, researchers showed macaque monkeys real pictures, digital caricatures and realistic reconstructions of other monkey faces. To the latter, the macaques repeatedly averted their eyes [Wired.com], suggesting that monkeys also fall into the uncanny valley.
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#1 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:56 AM EDT{"commentId":10162513,"authorDomain":"h-kuehn"}
Great seed. My daughter likes the book, but not the "Polar Express" movie so I wondered how higher-functioning animals like monkeys would react to computer animation. I just find it hard to bond with the characters the way you do when you are reading a book or watching a traditional movie. This article is on its way to exploring why we react this way.
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#2 - Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:05 PM EDT{"commentId":10166590,"authorDomain":"beamerab3"}
Oh. I'm grateful that other people were freaked out by Polar Express. That movie gave me the heebee jeebies. Nice to know that there is something in our brains at the primal level that is responsible for this.
I wonder if scientists have done studies on racism to see if the same parts of the brain are stimulated.
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