Social perception : detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention / edited by M.D. Rutherford and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the interdisciplinary study of social perception / M.D. Rutherford and Valerie Kuhlmeier -- Biological motion detection -- Section introduction: the perception of biological motion / Nikolaus Troje -- What is biological motion? : definition, stimuli and paradigms / Nikolaus Troje -- From motion cues to social perception: innate predispositions / Francesca Simion, Lara Bardi, Elena Mascalzoni, and Lucia Regolin -- Evidence for functional specialization in the human superior temporal sulcus (sts) : consideration of biological motion perception and social cognition / Emily Grossman -- Beyond the scientific objectification of the human body : differentiated analyses of human motion and object motion / Maggie Shiffrar and James P. Thomas -- The perception of animacy and intentional behaviour -- Evidence for specialized perception of animate motion / M.D. Rutherford -- Perceiving intention in animacy displays created from human motion / Phil McAleer and Scott Love -- Design for learning : the case of chasing / Willem Frankenhuis and H. Clark Barrett -- Perceiving animacy and intentionality : visual processing or higher-level judgment? / Brian Scholl and Tao Gao -- How are the actions of triangles and people processed in the human brain? / Antonia Hamilton and Richard Ramsey -- Infants attribute mental states to non-human agents / Yuyan Luo and You-jung Choi -- The social perception of helping and hindering / Valerie Kuhlmeier -- Recognizing and interpreting goal directed behaviour in human actors -- Section introduction : recognizing and interpreting goal directed behaviour in human actors / Jeff Loucks -- Dwelling on action / Dare Baldwin and Kara Sage -- The role of self-produced movement on the perception of biological motion and intentional actions in infants / Petra Hauf -- Human action perception across development / Jeff Loucks and Jessica Sommerville -- On-line action analysis : infants' anticipation of others' intentional actions / Amanda Woodward and Erin Cannon -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.