People watching
Subtitle: social, perceptual, and neurophysiological studies of body perception : findings, theory, and practice
By: edited by Kerri L. Johnson, Maggie Shiffrar
Series: Oxford series in visual cognition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780195393705
Subjects: Body image; Perception; Neurophysiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Making great strides : advances in research on the perception of the human body; title: Gunnar johansson, events, and biological motion; title: Psychophysics; title: Top-down versus bottom-up processing of biological motion; title: Seeing you through me : creating self-other correspondences for body perception; title: What does "biological motion" really mean? : differentiating visual percepts of human, animal, and non-biological motions; title: Shape-independent processing of biological motion; title: Action perception from a common coding perspective; title: Development and individual differences; title: Developmental origins of biological motion perception; title: Experience and the perception of biological motion; title: Variability in the visual perception of human motion as a function of the observer's autistic traits; title: Development of body motion processing in normalcy and pathology; title: Social perspectives; title: Person (mis)perception on the biased representation of the human body; title: It's the way you walk kinematic specification of vulnerability to attack; title: Coordinating social beings in motion; title: Functionalism redux : how adaptive action constrains perception, simulation, and evolved intuitions; title: Neurophysiology; title: Neural mechanisms for action observation; title: Neural mechanisms for biological motion and animacy; title: The how, when, and why of configural processing in the perception of human movement; title: Brain mechanisms for social perception : moving towards an understanding of autism; title: From body perception to action preparation : a distributed neural system for viewing bodily expressions of emotion; title: Sensory and motor brain areas subserving biological motion perception : neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies; title: Computational mechanisms of the visual processing of action stimuli.