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The participants saw, heard, and spoke with either a human (top left) or a conversational robot (top right), in real time. The brain image below the photos reveals the distinct regions activated during discussion with a human (areas in warmer colors) or a robot (cooler colors). The arrows on the cross section indicate activity in the basal ganglia (top), the two amygdalae (bottom), and the hypothalamus (middle).

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Thierry Chaminade, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (CNRS / AMU)

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