Biological motion: a perceptual life detector?
Detecting the direction of motion of other animals is critical for a variety of adaptive behaviours, including filial attachment and hunting prey. Two new studies support the view that some vertebrates, including humans, have primitive brain systems for the visual detection of other legged vertebrates.
Johnson
Mark H
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Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7JL, UK. mark.johnson@bbk.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008124:Locomotion; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*