Communicative interactions improve visual detection of biological motion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Manera, Valeria ^a,b   Becchio, Cristina ^a   Schouten, Ben ^b   Bara, Bruno G ^a   Verfaillie, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTION; VISION;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79251505215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014594     Document Type: Article

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