About the Authors

Mel Slater

melslater@ub.edu

Affiliations Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys, Barcelona, Spain, The Event Lab, Departament de Personalitat, Avaluació i Tractaments Psicològics Facultat de Psicologia, Campus de Mundet, Edifici Teatre Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Aitor Rovira

Affiliations The Event Lab, Departament de Personalitat, Avaluació i Tractaments Psicològics Facultat de Psicologia, Campus de Mundet, Edifici Teatre Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Richard Southern

Affiliation National Centre for Computer Animation, The Media School, Bournemouth University, Poole Dorset, United Kingdom

David Swapp

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Jian J. Zhang

Affiliation National Centre for Computer Animation, The Media School, Bournemouth University, Poole Dorset, United Kingdom

Claire Campbell

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Fylde College, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom

Mark Levine

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Northcote House, Exeter, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS ML. Performed the experiments: AR DS RS. Analyzed the data: MS. Wrote the paper: MS ML AR RS DS JJZ CC. Computer animation: RS JJZ.