| Budget Amount *help |
¥22,880,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,280,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥7,150,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,650,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥8,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,920,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We see a face against a group of dots like (∵). In this research project, I mainly focused on the psychological process of animacy perception and conducted psychological experiments to explore the various phenomena regarding animacy perception. I found several novel phenomena in both the condition to induce the animacy perception and the behavioral effects resulting from animacy perception; for example, synchronous motion of several dots drastically reduce the strength of induced animacy (Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015) Synchronous motion modulates animacy perception. Journal of Vision). The animacy perception also influenced the behavior and cognition. Objects seen as a face can induce joint attention by their gaze (Takahashi, K. & Watanabe, K. (2013) Gaze cueing by pareidolia faces. i-Perception) and can be detected easily compared with objects not seen as a face (Takahashi, K., & Watanabe, K. (2015) Seeing objects as faces enhances object detection. i-Perception).
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