Sentences with phrase «human participants watching»

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

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Particularly interesting is that participants who were introduced to Roboy in VR perceived the robot as less human - like than participants who watched a live HRI, whereas these two groups did not differentiate in regard of perceived realness.

In a study published by the psychologists Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Daniel Wegner (now deceased) in 2012, participants watched a brief video of a robot's head either from the front, where they could see its «human» face, or from behind, where they saw electrical components.

Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.

Participants who read an idealized description of self - driving car ownership, in which the automation required little or no human intervention, were more accepting of self - driving cars than were those who read the more realistic scenario, which depicted a driver keeping close watch over the automation and occasionally needing to intervene.