Perception of human motion

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 47-73

  Blake, Randolph ^a   Shiffrar, Maggie ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception linkage; Biological motion; Point light animation; Posterior superior temporal sulcus; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WALKING;

EID: 33847014843     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190152     Document Type: Review

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