A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch as one road to the valley of eeriness

Kätsyri, Jari, Förger, Klaus, Mäkäräinen, Meeri, Takala, Tapio·2015·Frontiers in Psychology
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00390

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