Inversion effect of human, robotic, and light-point walking animation : An ERP study(Summary of Awarded Presentations at the 24th Annual Meeting)

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Recent studies have reported a similarity in the neural processing of human and robot actions; however whether this is the case remains controversial. We have examined this controversy by using the inversion effect: A component of an event-related potential which is face and body sensitive is enhanced and delayed by an inverted face and body, but not by an inverted object. The results revealed that the inversion effect occurs only with a human, and not with a robotic or light-point, appearance. This suggests that our visual system differentially processes human and robot actions.