Humanoid robots in the brain cause the effect of "uncanny valley"

Even unlike the human robots can look pretty awful - at least remember the touching WALL-E cartoon. But the more they look like people, the harder it is to take them "from outside", and some humanoid robots is quite capable of causing real terror.

This effect is known in psychology, entitled "sinister valley" (because of the characteristic shape of the curve, mapping the brain's response). The reason it is not completely clear, although it can be assumed that this is due to an evolutionary "pledged" to have a mechanism that causes aversion to any deviation from a norm. Perhaps subconsciously robot too similar to a human, we are no longer perceived as a robot, and treat him as a "unfinished" man, to travesty of man.

Recently, a team of Aisha Saygin (Ayse Saygin), courage, went into the "uncanny valley" and explore what is happening at the same time in the human brain.

Scientists have found that when viewing records humanoid robot in the brain begins a real conflict. More precisely, there is increased activity of the parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex, which, in particular, motor parts of the brain connects with the analysis of movements. According to the authors, this tells us about the appearance of the annoying discrepancy between our expectations of how to move the object, and the way he moves in reality.

"By and large, - says Aisha Saygin - the brain is not interested in either appearance or movement. He needs his expectations that must be met. In particular, the fact that the appearance and motion matched ».

Source: www.popmech.ru

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