Biological Motion: Point-Light Walkers and Beyond

Thornton, IM

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Biological Motion: Point-Light Walkers and Beyond

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Thornton, IM
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Thornton, I. (2005). Biological Motion: Point-Light Walkers and Beyond. In G. Knoblich, M. Grosjean, I. Thornton, & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Human body perception from the inside out (pp. 271-303). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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The purpose of this chapter is to review the role that Johansson's pointlight stimuli have played in the study of biological motion. I begin by describing this type of stimuli and the techniques used to create them and then discuss the various reasons why I believe they have proven to be such a popular and powerful research tool. I will then consider two possible limitations with this technique and introduce additional methods that are becoming available for the study of biological motion. In the final sections I also take one general research theme from the area of biological-motion processing--the question of determining gender from motion--and discuss some preliminary findings on how techniques other than point-light stimuli can be exploited.