Laurie Simmons, “The Music of Regret IV,” 1994. Cibachrome print. (Laurie Simmons/National Museum of Women in the Arts, gift of Steven Scott in honor of Susan Fisher Sterling) Review by Maura ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

When Sigmund Freud wrote his essay “The Uncanny” a century ago, he brought the strange psychological phenomenon into the mainstream. The word is often used to describe the uneasiness one feels ...