We designed an fMRI experiment comparing perception of human faces and robotic faces producing emotional expressions. The purpose of our experiment was to investigate engagement of different parts of the social brain by viewing these animate and inanimate agents. Both human and robotic face expressions evoked activity in face-responsive regions in the fusiform gyrus and STS and in the putative ...

Investigated was whether children would re-enact what an adult actually did or what the adult intended to do. In Experiment 1 children were shown an adult who tried, but failed, to perform certain target acts. Completed target acts were thus not observed. Children in comparison groups either saw the full target act or appropriate controls. Results showed that children could infer the adult's in...

“Over time, cyberspace will hold a mirror image of our physical world, and the distinctions between Virtual Reality and every day consensus reality will begin to blur. Our living environments will be saturated with technology. Many objects will recognize us as we come near them. Things we now think of as inanimate will seem almost alive as they respond to our movements and even to our moods.”, ...

Abstract This study investigates child heritage speakers’ Spanish direct objects. A task designed to elicit objects was completed in and English by 40 speakers of the U.S., 24 monolingual children Mexico. Both participant groups varied their object forms, following same ranking: clitics>lexical NPs>omission>doubling. Animate referents promoted clitics; inanimate lexical NPs. Among spea...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can be caused by microorganisms present in common practice instruments generating major health problems the hospital environment. The aim of this work was to utilize disinfection capacity a portable ultraviolet C equipment (UV Sanitizer Box and UV-C Sterilization Torch) developed disinfect different objects. Pollution macro micro environment has concerns f...

The idea that sensitivity to self-produced motion could lie at the foundations of the clear-cut divide that the brain operates between the two basic domains of inanimate and animate objects dates back to Aristotle. Sensitivity to self-propelled objects is apparent in human infants from around the fifth month of age, which leaves undetermined whether it is acquired by experience with animate obj...

Inferior temporal (IT) object representations have been intensively studied in monkeys and humans, but representations of the same particular objects have never been compared between the species. Moreover, IT's role in categorization is not well understood. Here, we presented monkeys and humans with the same images of real-world objects and measured the IT response pattern elicited by each imag...

The environment is everything that exists around humans, whether in the form of inanimate objects, living things or events occur. including conditions society, especially those can have a strong influence on individuals. where person gets education directly indirectly. Therefore educational material and social. called three Education Centers, namely family, school community. In process, Islamic...

As previously, in FY 2014 the research conduced by the Modeling Complex Systems Laboratory as a whole can be categorized as “Complex System Science,” which is a novel interdisciplinary branch of science studding emergent phenomena met in a wide variety of systems different in nature, spanning from traditional objects of the inanimate world and technical systems up to social, economic, and ecolo...

“Over time, cyberspace will hold a mirror image of our physical world, and the distinctions between Virtual Reality and every day consensus reality will begin to blur. Our living environments will be saturated with technology. Many objects will recognize us as we come near them. Things we now think of as inanimate will seem almost alive as they respond to our movements and even to our moods.”, ...