Subconfigurations of the human form in the perception of biological motion displays

被引:68
作者
Pinto, J [1 ]
Shiffrar, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Psychol, Newark, NJ 07102 USA
关键词
visual perception; motion perception; biological motion;
D O I
10.1016/S0001-6918(99)00028-1
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We report four experiments examining processes that contribute to the perception of point-light displays of human locomotion. In three experiments, we employed a simultaneous masking paradigm to examine the visual system's use of configural information in global analyses of biological motion displays. In the fourth experiment, we obtained descriptions of our stimulus displays from naive observers. Performance in both the detection and identification studies suggests that the visual system responded equivalently to figures exhibiting any organization of limbs that is consistent with the human form. Moreover, the subconfigurations best detected were also most likely to be described independently as depicting a human figure. Thus our findings provide evidence that the visual system can exploit characteristic subconfigurations of the human form in the perception of human locomotion. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PsycINFO classification: 2323.
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页码:293 / 318
页数:26
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