Experience and the Perception of Biological Motion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pollick, Frank E ^a   Jola, Corinne ^b   Petrini, Karin ^a,c   McKay, Lawrie S ^d   McAleer, Phil ^a   Jang, Seon Hee ^e,f   MacLeod, Christine ^a   Simmons, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e Sejong University   (South Korea)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action observation; Autism spectrum disorders; Biological motion; Dance; Distributed processing; Drummers; Expertise; Multisensory representations; Neural correlates; Visual aesthetics; Visual experience; Visuomotor experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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