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Global Processing of Biological Motions
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The structure of the human form is quickly and unequivocably recognized from 10 to 13 points of light moving as if attached to the major joints and head of a person walking Recent psychophysical and computational models of this process suggest that these displays are organized by low-level processing constraints that delimit the pair-wise connections of the point lights In the current research, these low-level constraints were rendered uninformative by a masking paradigm The results from four experiments converged to show that the perception of structure in a point-light walker display does not require the prior detection of individual features or local relations
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bertenthal, B. I., & Pinto, J.
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1994-07
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 221-225
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2146461066
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 1.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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