Laurits Dixen
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Laurits Dixen is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and virtual reality. His most notable contribution, "Investigating the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon Through the Temporal Dynamics of Neural Responses to Virtual Characters" (2023), represents a sophisticated neurological approach to one of the most enduring puzzles in human perception — the Uncanny Valley effect, first theorised by Masahiro Mori in 1970. Rather than relying solely on subjective self-reports of discomfort, Dixen's work leverages neural response data to examine how and *when* the brain processes near-human virtual characters, offering a more precise, temporally grounded understanding of this unsettling phenomenon. This methodology bridges traditional psychological inquiry with modern neuroscientific tools, bringing fresh empirical rigour to a field that has long grappled with measurement challenges. Though early in his career with 4 citations to date, Dixen's research speaks to increasingly urgent questions as virtual avatars, humanoid robots, and AI-generated faces become ever more prevalent in everyday life. His work positions him as a thoughtful voice in the growing conversation around human responses to artificial agents.
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