The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with
is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has …

Thanks to the decreasing cost of whole-body sensing technology and its increasing
reliability, there is an increasing interest in, and understanding of, the role played by body …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Human observers readily recognize emotions expressed in body movement. Their
perceptual judgments are based on simple movement features, such as overall speed, but …

We tested biological motion perception in a large group of unilateral stroke patients (N= 60).
Both right and left hemisphere lesioned patients were significantly impaired compared with …

Many factors render multimodal affect recognition approaches appealing. First, humans
employ a multimodal approach in emotion recognition. It is only fitting that machines, which …

Human observers are able to identify a person based on his or her gait. However, little is
known about the underlying mechanisms and the kind of information used to accomplish …

Biological motion perception, the recognition of human action depicted in sparse dot
displays, is supported by a network of brain areas including the human posterior superior …

Point-light displays of human gait provide information sufficient to recognize the gender of a
walker and are taken as evidence of the exquisite tuning of the visual system to biological …

Most neuropsychological research on the perception of emotion concerns the perception of
faces. Yet in everyday life, hand actions are also modulated by our affective state, revealing …