Evidence for auditory-visual processing specific to biological motion

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-28

  Wuerger, Sophie M ^a   Crocker Buque, Alexander ^a   Meyer, Georg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auditory; Biological motion; congruency; looming; motion; motion in depth; multisensorial integration; reaction times; receding; visual

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY; BIOLOGICAL MOTION; CONGRUENCY; LOOMING; MOTION; MOTION-IN-DEPTH; RECEDING; VISUAL;

EXPERIMENTS; FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HUMAN REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION; WALKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858228244     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847611X620892     Document Type: Article

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