This chapter provides a case study of a research project investigating aspects of facial expression and viewer response to the „Uncanny Valley‟ (Mori, 1970) in realistic, human-like, virtual characters. In humans, there exists a rich variety of information that can be obtained through nonverbal communication (NVC) (Ekman, 1965). However, empirical evidence collected as part of this research pro...

© MCB University Press [ISSN 0956-6163] The authors wish to express their deep gratitude and appreciation to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst for the fellowship that was granted to Dr Abdel-Shafy throughout this study. The authors also are in great debt to the scientific co-operation of both Dipl.-Ing. N. Peschen and Dipl.-Ing. K.S. Iter, Forschungsinstitut der Forschungsgemeinschaft ...

Adenylate cyclase type I (AC1) is primarily, and, abundantly, expressed in the brain. Intracellular calcium/ calmodulin increases regulate AC1 in an activity-dependent manner. Upon stimulation, AC1 produces cAMP and it is involved in the patterning and the refinement of neural circuits. In mice, spontaneous mutations or targeted deletion of the Adcy1 gene, which encodes AC1, resulted in neurona...

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