Neural Mechanisms for Biological Motion and Animacy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pyles, John A ^a   Grossman, Emily D ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action recognition; Action understanding network; Animacy; Animal motion; Artificial biological motion; Biological motion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri); Human motion; Inferior temporal cortex; Kinematics; Multimodal processing; Superior temporal sulcus (sts); Ventral temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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