Potter, Lang co-author paper on avatars
Associate professor Rob Potter and Distinguished Professor Annie Lang are co-authors of a paper that recently was published in the Journal of Media Psychology.
“How Realistic Should Avatars Be? An Initial fMRI Investigation of Activation of the Face Perception Network by Real and Animated Faces,” examines the effects of seeing characters in games and online.
The Media School professors worked with associate professor Thomas James, Sungkyoung Lee of the University of Missouri, and IU alumni Sunah Kim of Samsung and Ryan Stevenson of the University of Toronto.
Potter is also the director for the school’s Institute for Communication Research.
The researchers used functional magnetic resonance images to investigate how the brain reacts when people see images of human and animal faces, which varied in realism.