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Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues
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1Center for Advanced Imaging, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center South, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
Abstract:
Yovel and Kanwisher (this issue of Neuron) altered upright and inverted face and house characteristics during a same-different task. The right fusiform face area (FFA) was more active to faces than houses but, unlike behavior, was unaffected by spatial configuration or parts manipulations. These data raise interesting questions regarding the relationship of brain activation to observed behavior.
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