(if you don't already have the free Acrobat Reader application from Adobe installed on your computer, click on the button to the right to download and install it)
You can also download and view the animation stimuli used in Experiments 1 and 2:
(18 color QuickTime movies, some with sound)
(if you don't already have the free QuickTime Player application from Apple installed on your computer, click on the button to the right to download and install it)
Each pair of animations shares the same Context, i.e. the same scene and
visible forces (gravity and/or water). Within each pair, animations vary
in either the moving object's Trajectory (path, accelerations) or the
presence/absence of an additional audible Context force in the scene
(wind). These variations affect the viewer's inference about the
Animacy of the moving object.
Note: for details, use the links above to view the abstract or the full
dissertation (Chapter 3, page 66, which is page 79 in the PDF file).
