Karl Verfaillie

TL;DR: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and point light displays portraying six different human actions, it is shown that several visual cortical regions, including human MT/V5 complex, posterior inferior temporal gyrus and superior temporal sulcus, are differentially active in the subtraction comparing biological motion to scrambled motion.

TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term priming experiment was conducted where participants were presented with a pair of short motion animations showing a person performing a particular whole body movement and had to decide whether the actions were the same or different.

TL;DR: Normative data collected to assess the recognizability of the stimuli suggest that, for most action stimuli, information in point-light displays is sufficient for clear recognition of the action as communicative, as well as for identification of the specific communicative gesture performed by the actor.

TL;DR: Using frontal-view point-light displays of human walkers, observers were asked to judge whether they seemed to be walking towards or away from the viewing position, and found that stimulus manipulations that made such walker appear more female also had the effect of making the walkers appear more often as if they were walking away from rather than towards observers.