We present three experiments that investigated the perception of animacy and direction from
local biological motion cues. Coherent and scrambled point-light displays of humans, cats, …

The ability to derive the facing direction of a spatially scrambled point-light walker relies on
the motions of the feet and is impaired if they are inverted. We exploited this local inversion …

Visually guided behavior depends on (1) extracting and (2) discriminating signals from complex
retinal inputs, and these perceptual skills improve with practice [1]. For instance, training …

The perception of biological motion is subserved by both a global process that retrieves
structural information and a local process that is sensitive to individual limb motions. Here, we …

The mechanistic and neural bases of why green environments drive positive mental health
outcomes remain poorly understood. We show that viewing green urban landscapes that vary …

Using fMRI and multivariate analyses we sought to understand the neural representations of
articulated body shape and local kinematics in biological motion. We show that in addition …

When planning interactions with nearby objects, our brain uses visual information to estimate
shape, material composition, and surface structure before we come into contact with them. …

The presence of information in a visual display does not guarantee its use by the visual
system. Studies of inversion effects in both face recognition and biological-motion perception …

Life motion, the active movements of people and other animals, contains a wealth of information
that is potentially accessible to the visual system of an observer. Biological-motion point-…

Previous studies have suggested that extensive action video gaming may enhance perceptual
and attentional capacities. Here, we probed whether attentional differences between …