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Perceptual and Category Processing of the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis' Dimension of Human Likeness: Some Methodological Issues
Published on: June 3, 2013
Human tool-making capacities reflect increased information-processing capacities: continuity resides in the eyes of
1Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA. kathleen.r.gibson@uth.tmc.edu
Abstract:
Chimpanzee/human technological differences are vast, reflect multiple interacting behavioral processes, and may result from the increased information-processing and hierarchical mental constructional capacities of the human brain. Therefore, advanced social, technical, and communicative capacities probably evolved together in concert with increasing brain size. Interpretations of these evolutionary and species differences as continuities or discontinuities reflect differing scientific perspectives.
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