For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study by Raffaella Rumiati from SISSA, ...

Young children with autism appear to be delayed in their ability to categorize objects and, in particular, to distinguish between living and nonliving things, according to a breakthrough study by ...

Generally, humans recognize that while animate objects can create order, inanimate objects can only increase disorder (although I’m sure you Arsians will come up with several clever counterexamples).

New artificial intelligence-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are ...

When we're desperate for love or attention, we unconsciously lower our standards for what we'll try to connect with, according to new research. Loneliness, it seems, can cause the line between animate ...

When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, the sad-looking one with the squeaky wheel. When she puts the dishes ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...

There’s something about making inanimate objects animate that strikes writers’ and movie producers’ fancies. I say this because I’ve read some books and watched a few movies with that particular theme ...