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- Animacy perception is the skill animals use to recognize whether objects are alive, essential for identifying social partners or threats for survival.
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Editorial: Animacy in cognition: effects, mechanisms, and theories.
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When sounds come alive: animacy in the auditory sense.
Front Psychol
October 2024
Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Despite the interest in animacy perception, few studies have considered sensory modalities other than vision. However, even everyday experience suggests that the auditory sense can also contribute to the recognition of animate beings, for example through the identification of voice-like sounds or through the perception of sounds that are the by-products of locomotion. Here we review the studies that have investigated the responses of humans and other animals to different acoustic features that may indicate the presence of a living entity, with particular attention to the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying such perception.
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