The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

Saygin, Ayse Pinar, Chaminade, Thierry, Ishiguro, Hiroshi, Driver, Jon, Frith, Chris·2012·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

DOI 10.1093/scan/nsr025

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