2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Psychological investigation on animacy perception
| Project/Area Number |
25700013
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Chukyo University (2016-2017)
The University of Tokyo (2013-2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 認知科学 / 認知心理学 / 生き物らしさ / アニマシー |
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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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| Free Research Field |
認知心理学
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