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  "abstract": "Boger and Firestone (2026) use a novel set of hybrid stimuli whose identity changes with rotation. They find that change-detection is easier when such images cross the animate-inanimate boundary, and that targets are found faster among distractors of the opposite animacy, despite these objects being constituted of the same pixel-by-pixel content. These results are taken as evidence that animacy influences visual cognition independently of its lower-level visual correlates. Here, I challenge this inference on two grounds. First, rotation preserves global image statistics but changes the positions and orientations of local features in a retinotopic, anisotropic visual system. Second, findings obtained with a small set of deliberately ambiguous images do not establish the mechanisms of ordinary object recognition. Visual anagrams are ingenious stimuli, but their usefulness for isolating animacy from its visual correlates remains limited.",
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  "published": "2026-09-03",
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  "title": "Comment on Boger & Firestone (2026): Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images",
  "title_text": "Comment on Boger & Firestone (2026): Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images",
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