Humanoids 2001 Tutorial

Humanoids 2001 Tutorial on the Visual Perception of Human Movement

Talk (with references included)

Selected Bibliography

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Chao, L. L., Haxby, J. V., & Martin, A. (1999). Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects. Nature Neuroscience, 2(10), 913-919.

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Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (1999). Cognitive psychology - Interacting minds - A biological basis. Science, 286(5445), 1692-1695.

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Grezes, J., Fonlupt, P., Bertenthal, B., Delon-Martin, C., Segebarth, C., & Decety, J. (2001). Does perception of biological motion rely on specific brain regions? Neuroimage, 13(5), 775-785.

Grossman, E., Donnelly, M., Price, R., Pickens, D., Morgan, V., Neighbor, G., & Blake, R. (2000). Brain areas involved in perception of biological motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(5), 711-720.

Grossman, E. D., & Blake, R. (1999). Perception of coherent motion, biological motion and form-from- motion under dim-light conditions. Vision Research, 39(22), 3721-3727.

Grossman, E. D., & Blake, R. (2001). Brain activity evoked by inverted and imagined biological motion. Vision Research, 41(10-11), 1475-1482.

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Hermsdorfer, J., Goldenberg, G., Wachsmuth, C., Conrad, B., Ceballos-Baumann, A. O., Bartenstein, P., Schwaiger, M., & Boecker, H. (2001). Cortical correlates of gesture processing: Clues to the cerebral mechanisms underlying apraxia during the imitation of meaningless gestures. Neuroimage, 14(1), 149-161.

Hill, H., & Johnston, A. (2001). Categorizing sex and identity from the biological motion of faces. Current Biology, 11(11), 880-885.

Hill, H., & Pollick, F. E. (2000). Exaggerating temporal differences enhances recognition of individuals from point light displays. Psychological Science, 11(3), 223-228.

Hirashima, S. (1999). Recognition on the gender of point-light walkers moving in different directions. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 70(2), 149-153.

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Ibbotson, M. R., & Clifford, C. W. G. (2001). Characterising temporal delay filters in biological motion detectors. Vision Research, 41(18), 2311-2323.

Ille, A., & Cadopi, M. (1995). Reproducing choreographic walks from the observation of a kinematic point-light display: Effect of skill level. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 29(3), 101-114.

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Knoblich, G., & Prinz, W. (2001). Recognition of self-generated actions from kinematic displays of drawing. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 27(2), 456-465.

Kourtzi, Z., & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Dynamic representations of human body movement. Perception, 28(1), 49-62.

Kozlowski, L.T. & Cutting, J.E. (1977). Recognizing the sex of a walker from a dynamic point-light display. Perception and Psychophysics, 21, 575-580.

Mather, G., & Murdoch, L. (1994). Gender Discrimination in Biological Motion Displays Based on Dynamic Cues. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 258(1353), 273-279.

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Mather, G., & West, S. (1993). Recognition of Animal Locomotion from Dynamic Point-Light Displays. Perception, 22(7), 759-766.

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A short summary of biological motion by Randolph Blake

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