Human- or object-like? Cognitive anthropomorphism of humanoid robots

Alessandra Sacino; Francesca Cocchella; Giulia De Vita; Fabrizio Bracco; Francesco Rea; Alessandra Sciutti; Luca Andrighetto

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0270787

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Human- or object-like? Cognitive anthropomorphism of humanoid robots

Alessandra Sacino ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Sacino, Luca Andrighetto

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Educational Science, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Francesca Cocchella ,

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ FC, GDV, FB, FR and AS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Educational Science, University of Genova, Genova, Italy, Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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Giulia De Vita ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software

¶‡ FC, GDV, FB, FR and AS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Educational Science, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Fabrizio Bracco ,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ FC, GDV, FB, FR and AS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Educational Science, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Francesco Rea ,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ FC, GDV, FB, FR and AS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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Alessandra Sciutti ,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ FC, GDV, FB, FR and AS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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Luca Andrighetto

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandra Sacino, Luca Andrighetto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: luca.andrighetto@unige.it

Affiliation Department of Educational Science, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6257-6097

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Human- or object-like? Cognitive anthropomorphism of humanoid robots

Alessandra Sacino,
Francesca Cocchella,
Giulia De Vita,
Fabrizio Bracco,
Francesco Rea,
Alessandra Sciutti,
Luca Andrighetto

Published: July 26, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270787

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