Biological motion: An exercise in bottom-up vs. top-down processing

Journal of Mind and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-73

  Kroustallis, Basileios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Object recognition; Vision

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTION; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 2442691604     PISSN: 02710137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. Adolphs, R. (1999). Social cognition and the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 469-479.
2. Ahlström, V., Blake, R., and Ahlström, U. (1997). Perception of biological motion. Perception, 26, 1539-1548.
3. Allison, T., Puce, A., and McCarthy, G. (2000). Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 267-278.
4. Andersen, R.A., and Bradley, D.C. (1998). Perception of three-dimensional structure from motion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 222-228.
5. Baron-Cohen, S., Campbell, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Grant, J., and Walker, J. (1995). Are children with autism blind to the mentalistic significance of the eyes? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13, 379-398.
6. Barsalou, L. (1999). Perceptual symbol systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 577-609.
7. Bartlett, J.C., and Searcy, J. (1993). Inversion and configuration of faces. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 281-616.
8. Bertenthal, B.I., and Pinto, J. (1993). Complementary processes in the perception and production of human movements. In L.B. Smith, and E. Thelen (Eds.), A dynamic systems approach to development: Applications (pp. 209-239). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
9. Biederman, I. (1993). Visual object recognition. In A.I. Goldman (Ed.), Readings in philosophy and cognitive science (pp. 9-21). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
10. Blake, R. (1993). Cats perceive biological motion. Psychological Science, 4, 54-57.
11. Bonda, E., Petrides, M., Ostry, D., and Evans, A. (1996). Specific involvement of human parietal systems and the amygdala in the perception of biological motion. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 3737-3744.
12. Boyce, S.J., Pollatsek, A., and Rayner, K. (1989). Effect of background information on object identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 556-566.
13. Braddick, O. (1974). A short-range process in apparent motion. Vision Research, 14, 519-528.
14. Chatterjee, S.H., Freud, J.J., and Shiffrar, M. (1996). Configural processing in the perception of apparent biological motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 916-929.
15. Cowey, A., and Vaina, L.M. (2000). Blindness to form from motion despite intact form perception and motion detection. Neuropsychologia, 38, 566-578.
16. Cutting, J.E., and Proffitt, D.R. (1981). Gait perception as an example of how we may perceive events. In R.D. Walk and H.L. Pick, Jr. (Eds.), Intersensory perception and sensory integration (pp. 249-273). New York: Plenum.
17. Dannemiller, J.L., and Epstein, W. (1999). Constraining the use of constraints. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 373-374.
18. Dittrich, W.H. (1993). Action categories and the perception of biological motion. Perception, 22, 15-22.
19. Dittrich, W.H. (1999). Seeing biological motion - Is there a role for cognitive strategies? In A. Braffort, R. Gherbi, S. Giber, J. Richardson, and D. Teil (Eds.), Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, Volume 1739 - Gesture-based communication in human-computer interaction (pp. 3-22). Berlin: Springer.
20. Fodor, J. (1983). The modularity of mind: An essay on faculty psychology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
21. Fox, R., and McDaniel, C. (1982). The perception of biological motion by human infants. Science, 218, 486-487.
22. Gregory, R. (1966). Eye and brain: The psychology of seeing. London: World University Library.
23. Grèzes, J., Fonlupt, P., Bertenthal, B., Delon-Martin, C., Segebarth, C., and Decety, J. (2001). Does perception of biological motion rely on specific brain regions? Neuroimage, 13, 775-785.
24. Grossman, E.D., and Blake, R. (1999). Perception of coherent motion, biological motion and form-from-motion under dim-light conditions. Vision Research, 39, 3721-3727.
25. Grossman, E.D., and Blake, R. (2002). Brain areas active during visual perception of biological motion. Neuron, 35, 1167-1175.
26. Grossman, E.D., Donnelly, M., Price, R., Pickens, D., Morgan, V., Neighbor, G., and Blake, R. (2000). Brain areas involved in perception of biological motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 122, 711-720.
27. Haxby, J.V., Hoffman, E.A., and Gobbini, M.A. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 223-233.
28. Heberlein, A.S., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Kemmerer, D., Anderson, S., Damasio, A.R. (1998). Impaired attribution of social meanings to abstract dynamic geometric patterns following damage to the amygdala. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, abstract number 463.5.
29. Henderson, J.M., and Hollingworth, A. (1999). High-level scene perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 243-271.
30. Hollingworth, A., and Henderson, J.M. (1998). Does consistent scene context facilitate object perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 398-415.
31. Hollingworth, A., and Henderson, J.M. (1999). Object identification is isolated from scene semantic constraint: Evidence from object type and token discrimination. Acta Psychologica, 102, 319-343.
32. Johansson, G. (1973). Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis. Perception and Psychophysics, 14, 201-211.
33. Kosslyn, S.M. (1994). Image and brain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
34. Marr, D. (1982). Vision. New York: W.H. Freeman.
35. Mather, G., Radford, K., and West, S. (1992). Low-level visual processing of biological motion. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 249, 149-155.
36. Milner, A.D., and Goodale, M.A. (1995). The visual brain in action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
37. Neri, P., Morrone, M.C., and Burr, D.C. (1998). Seeing biological motion. Nature, 395, 894-896.
38. Oram, M.W., and Perrett, D.I. (1994). Responses of anterior superior temporal polysensory (STPa) neurons to "biological motion" stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 99-116.
39. Palmer, S.E. (1975). Visual perception and world knowledge: Notes on a model of sensory-cognitive integration. In D.A. Norman and D.E. Rumelhart (Eds.), Explorations in cognition (pp. 279-307). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
40. Pavlova, M., Krägeloh-Mann, I., Sokolov, A., and Birbaumer, N. (2001). Recognition of point-light biological motion displays by young children. Perception, 30, 925-933.
41. Pylyshyn, Z. (1999a). Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 341-365.
42. Pylyshyn, Z. (1999b). Vision and cognition: How do they connect? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 401-423.
43. Rock, I. (1983). The logic of perception. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
44. Schyns, P.G. (1999). The case for cognitive penetrability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 394-395.
45. Schyns, P.G., and Oliva, A. (1994). From blobs to boundary edges: Evidence for time- and spatial-scale-dependent scene recognition. Psychological Science, 5, 195-200.
46. Shiffrar, M., Lichtey, L., and Chatterjee, S.H. (1997). The perception of biological motion across apertures. Perception and Psychophysics, 59, 51-59.
47. Sugase, Y., Yamane, S., Ueno, S., and Kawano, K. (1999). Global and fine information coded by single neurons in the temporal visual cortex. Nature, 400, 869-873.
48. Sumi, S. (1984). Upside-down presentation of the Johansson moving light-spot patterns. Perception, 13, 283-286.
49. Thornton, I.M., Pinto, I., and Shiffrar, M. (1998). The visual perception of human locomotion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 535-552.
50. Thornton, I.M., Rensink, R.A., and Shiffrar, M. (2002). Active versus passive perception of biological motion. Perception, 31, 837-853.
51. Ullman, S. (1979). The interpretation of visual motion. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
52. Ullman, S. (1996). High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
53. Ungerleider, L.G., and Mishkin, M. (1982). Two cortical visual systems. In D.J. Ingle, M.A. Goodale, and R.J.W. Mansfield (Eds.), Analysis of visual behaviour (pp. 549-586). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
54. Vaina, L.M., LeMay, M., Bienfang, D.C., Choi, A.Y., and Nakayama, K. (1990). Intact biological motion and structure from motion perception in a patient with impaired motion mechanisms. Visual Neuroscience, 6, 353-369.
55. Vaina, L.M., Solomon, J., Chowdhury, S., Sinha, P., and Belliveau, J.W. (2001).Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 11656-11661.
56. Wallisch, P. (2001). The perception of biological motion. Retrieved February 12, 2004, from http://www.lascap.de/Downloads/Biologicalmotion.pdf
57. Webb, J.A., and Aggarwal, J.K. (1982). Structure from motion of rigid and jointed objects. Artificial Intelligence, 19, 107-132.