Developmental Origins of Biological Motion Perception

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Frankenhuis, Willem E ^a   Barrett, H Clark ^b   Johnson, Scott P ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Body shape; Event perception; Face perception; Infancy; Mental; Motion perception; Motion sensitivity; Object perception; Perceptual development; Visual development; Visual environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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