[HTML][HTML] Creepy cats and strange high houses: Support for configural processing in testing predictions of nine uncanny valley theories

A Diel, KF MacDorman - Journal of Vision, 2021 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Abstract In 1970, Masahiro Mori proposed the uncanny valley (UV), a region in a human-
likeness continuum where an entity risks eliciting a cold, eerie, repellent feeling. Recent …

Virtual faces evoke only a weak uncanny valley effect: An empirical investigation with controlled virtual face images

J Kätsyri, B De Gelder, T Takala - Perception, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The uncanny valley (UV) hypothesis suggests that increasingly human-like robots or virtual
characters elicit more familiarity in their observers (positive affinity) with the exception of …

Familiarity, orientation, and realism increase face uncanniness by sensitizing to facial distortions

A Diel, M Lewis - Journal of Vision, 2022 - jov.arvojournals.org
The uncanny valley predicts aversive reactions toward near-humanlike entities. Greater
uncanniness is elicited by distortions in realistic than unrealistic faces, possibly due to …