Visual perception of biological motion by form: A template-matching analysis

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 836-849

  Lange, Joachim ^a   Georg, Karsten ^a   Lappe, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Form recognition; Motion; Template matching analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONITORING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; WALKING;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 33746583272     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.8.6     Document Type: Article

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