The How, When, and Why of Configural Processing in the Perception of Human Movement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Thompson, James C ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Articulated motion; Biological motion; Body shape; Configural processing; Event related potentials (erps); Form processing; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri); Occlusion; Superior temporal sulcus (sts)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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