The human visual system is extremely sensitive to biological signals around us. In the
current study, we demonstrate that biological motion walking direction can induce robust …

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 …

Most vertebrates, humans included, have a primitive visual system extremely sensitive to the
motion of biological entities. Most previous studies have examined the global aspects of …

Previous studies have shown that older subjects have difficulties discriminating the walking
direction of point-light walkers. In two experiments, we investigated the underlying cause in …

Most vertebrates, including humans, are highly adept at detecting and encoding biological
motion, even when it is portrayed by just a few point lights attached to the head and major …

The visual search paradigm has been widely used to study the mechanisms underlying
visual attention, and search asymmetry provides a source of insight into preattentive visual …

The visual system is able to recognize human motion simply from point lights attached to the
major joints of an actor. Moreover, it has been shown that younger adults are able to …

The presence of information in a visual display does not guarantee its use by the visual
system. Studies of inversion effects in both face recognition and biological-motion …

Depth-ambiguous point-light walkers (PLWs) elicit a facing bias: Observers perceive a PLW
as facing toward them more often than as facing away (Vanrie, Dekeyser, & Verfaillie …

Among the most common events in our daily lives is seeing people in action. Scientists have
accumulated evidence suggesting humans may have developed specialized mechanisms …