Basic Causality & Animacy Demos
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BJS: Basic Causality & Animacy Demo
For our review article, we also created an analogue of the infamous ‘perceptual animacy’ demonstration of Heider and Simmel (1944). This is provided here both with symmetric ‘blocks’ as shapes, and also with oriented ‘darts’ as shapes. Though Heider & Simmel did not study these dart-like stimuli, we and other researchers have recently noted that that the orientation cues in such stimuli can greatly strengthen the perception of animacy in these displays. These demonstrations are all 640 x 480 pixels, and are provided in both Flash and standard Quicktime versions.
- H&S with ‘Blocks’: Standard Quicktime Movie (2.4 MB), QT with Flash Movie (24 KB)
- H&S with ‘Darts’: Standard Quicktime Movie (2.7 MB), QT with Flash Movie (36 KB)