ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2023
Life Detection From Biological Motion.
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- The psychophysical limits of agency: Biological motion percepts are dramatically weakened in slow-moving displays.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Integration of global configuration and local motion in point-light walker direction estimation.Psychological research · 2026Article
- A multivariate differential-phase model based on bio-kinematic asymmetry accounts for estimation biases in point-light walker directions.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- I see moving people: Expectations drive detection of biological motion in noisy point-light displays.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Effects of local information and egocentric reference frames on estimation of biological motion direction.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Detecting unnaturalness in biological motion with altered playback speeds.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Sensorimotor simulation and distributed processing of biological motion: Insights from healthy and paraplegic adults.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Implied object direction from eye location enhances animacy ratings but not detection of chasing behavior.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Gender differences in attentional processes and attractiveness evaluation models during gait observation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Detecting biological motion signals in human and monkey superior colliculus: a subcortical-cortical pathway for biological motion perception.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Moving spiders do not boost visual search in spider fear.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Perception of animate motion in dogs.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Audiovisual correspondence facilitates the visual search for biological motion.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Dynamics of visual reversals from ambiguous spinning biological-motion and rigid structure-from-motion.i-PerceptionArticle
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Abstract
Life motion, the active movements of people and other animals, contains a wealth of information that is potentially accessible to the visual system of an observer. Biological-motion point-light displays have been widely used to study both the information contained in life motion stimuli and the visual mechanisms that make use of it. Biological motion conveys motion-mediated dynamic shape, which in turn can be used for identification and recognition of the agent, but it also contains local visual invariants that humans and other animals use as a general detection system that signals the presence of other agents in the visual environment. Here, we review recent research on behavioral, neurophysiological, and genetic aspects of this life-detection system and discuss its functional significance in the light of earlier hypotheses.
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