Gunnar Johansson, Events, and Biological Motion

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cutting, James E ^a  

^a Department of Psychology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Center of moment; Event perception; Gait perception; Gender perception; Gestalt psychology; Gunnar johansson; Historical overview; Identity perception; Law of common motion; Person perception; Point light walker

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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