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Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Lab, UC San Diego

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Public Engagement and Media

      • UCSD News release: “Your Brain on Androids”
      • CNN article and video: “Why robots, clowns and zombies can creep us out”
      • San Diego Union Tribune article (on the cover no less!)
      • Robots, the uncanny valley and learning to love the alien (The Telegraph) NEW!
      • Interview on Southern California Public Radio: AirTalk – Should robots be more like us? NEW!
      • NBC News: On Game of Thrones’ White Walkers  NEW!
      • Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids (Wired)
      • Brainscans in the Uncanny Valley (boingboing)
      • Your Brain on Androids (Science Daily)
      • Brain responses to androids in the ‘uncanny valley’ (Kurzweil AI)
      • The Uncanny Valley and Intellectual Uncertainty
      • Crossing the Uncanny Valley (Calit2)
      • Encounters with “The Thing That Should Not Be” (Calit2)
      • UCSD News release on Calit2 Strategic Research Opportunities Awards featuring our work
      • Interview with Dr. Saygin (Inspirational Woman in Neuroscience, WISE Campaign)
      • UCSD Science & Engineering Library profile for Women’s History Month PDF
      • Inside the Brain of Roberto Donadoni (BBC Sports)
      • What puts the creepy into robot crawlies? (New Scientist)
      • The Second Uncanny Valley (Open the Future, IEEE)
      • Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping (VLSM) UCSD Press Release
      • Kavli Brain/Mind Institute Funds Innovative Research
      • The Turing Test Page
      • Research Experiences for High School Students (REHS)

 

Links:
Public Education and Outreach (SFN)
Brain Awareness Week

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Header image of Ami Shulman from "Let us imagine a straight line" © Butch Rovan