ReviewAnimal cognition2023
Life is in motion (through a chick's eye).
Review in Animal cognition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Knowledge of robotic identity modulates attentional orienting to humanoid robot motion.Psychological research · 2026Article
- The naive brain detects face-to-face biological motion.iScience · 2026Article
- Sensitivity to permanent non-functionality in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Sensorimotor simulation and distributed processing of biological motion: Insights from healthy and paraplegic adults.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Assessing preferences for adult versus juvenile features in young animals: Newly hatched chicks spontaneously approach red and large stimuli.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Eye-specific detection and a multi-eye integration model of biological motion perception.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Innate sensitivity to face-to-face biological motion.iScience · 2024Article
- The domestic chick as an animal model of autism spectrum disorder: building adaptive social perceptions through prenatally formed predispositions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Audiovisual correspondence facilitates the visual search for biological motion.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception.iScience · 2023Article
- A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Perceiving animacy from kinematics: visual specification of life-likeness in simple geometric patterns.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Parental behavior and newborn attachment in birds: life history traits and endocrine responses.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The influence of eye position on the animacy impression of a cube-shaped robot in motion.i-PerceptionArticle
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Abstract
Cognitive scientists, social psychologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, ethologists and many others have all wondered how brains detect and interpret the motion of living organisms. It appears that specific cues, incorporated into our brains by natural selection, serve to signal the presence of living organisms. A simple geometric figure such as a triangle put in motion with specific kinematic rules can look alive, and it can even seem to have intentions and goals. In this article, we survey decades of parallel investigations on the motion cues that drive animacy perception-the sensation that something is alive-in non-human animals, especially in precocial species, such as the domestic chick, to identify inborn biological predispositions. At the same time, we highlight the relevance of these studies for an understanding of human typical and atypical cognitive development.
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