Look who's talking: visual detection of speech from whole-body biological motion cues during emotive interpersonal conversation.
Biological motion stimuli contain a great deal of information about the person and action depicted. Here, we extend the known range by showing that viewers can see which member of a pair of conversing actors is talking. Moreover, the ability varies with the emotional content of the conversation. The implications for social cognitive neuroscience are discussed.
Rose
David
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Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK. d.rose@surrey.ac.uk
Clarke
Tanya J
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