News note: Monkeys, according to a recent study, behave similar to humans in the face of the Uncanny Valley.
From the New Scientist: “These primates don’t participate in human culture, which suggests the uncanny valley has a biological basis,” says Karl MacDorman of Indiana University in Indianapolis. Wired magazine suggests that this means “the uncanny valley has evolutionary origins deep in the primate psyche.”
So monkeys are like humans, almost. Hmm…it all seems so…uncannily similar.
Adding a related link for posterity from National Geographic (3 Nov 2009): “The Polar Express Would Creep Out Monkeys Too?”
Monkeys fall into the Uncanny Valley. How strangely familiar of them. http://bit.ly/rkUFu
Monkeys fall into the Uncanny Valley. How strangely familiar of them. http://bit.ly/rkUFu