Physical and Biological Constraints Govern Perceived Animacy of Scrambled Human Forms

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1133-1141

  Thurman, Steven M ^a   Lu, Hongjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

animacy; biological motion; causality; reverse correlation; social perception; visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880063649     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612467212     Document Type: Article

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