>In the paper, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, the team writes, "as human-like artificial agents become more commonplace,

>In the paper, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, the team writes, "as human-like artificial agents become more commonplace, perhaps our perceptual systems will be re-tuned to accommodate these new social partners." The researchers probably think that is likely, else why did they specifically choose subjects that "had no experience working with robots and hadn’t spent time in Japan where there’s more cultural exposure to androids."