To what extent are filial responses the outcome of spontaneous or acquired preferences?
The case of domestic chicks illustrates the connection between predisposed and learned …

Perception, identification, and understanding of others' actions from motion information are
vital for our survival in the social world. A breakthrough in the understanding of action …

The study of biological motion perception was introduced into vision research some forty
years ago by Swedish psychologist Gunnar Johansson. Since that time, questions and …

Life motion, the active movements of people and other animals, contains a wealth of
information that is potentially accessible to the visual system of an observer. Biological …

Inversion effect in biological motion perception has been recently attributed to an innate
sensitivity of the visual system to the gravity-dependent dynamic of the motion. However, the …

Human actions are rich in social cues and play an essential role in interacting with the social
environment. Hence, the perception of biological motion (ie, movement elicited by humans …

The ability to detect biological motion (BM) and decipher the meaning therein is essential to
human survival and social interaction. However, at the individual level, we are not equally …

It remains to be understood how biological motion is hierarchically computed, from
discrimination of local biological motion animacy to global dynamic body perception. Here …

Using fMRI and multivariate analyses we sought to understand the neural representations of
articulated body shape and local kinematics in biological motion. We show that in addition to …

Detecting biological motion is essential for adaptive social behavior. Previous research has
revealed the brain processes underlying this ability. However, brain activity during biological …