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Letter: Editor's pick: Excluded from the uncanny valley

Published 16 November 2016

From Daniel Rollison

London, UK

Nowadays we see human faces and bodies digitally altered into an uncanny state on film posters and fashion adverts everywhere. I am sure I am not the only one who finds some of them unsettling. Has research been done on their effects?

Issue no. 3100 published 19 November 2016

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