Humans, being highly social creatures, rely heavily on the ability to perceive what others are
doing and to infer from gestures and expressions what others may be intending to do. These …

The visual recognition of complex movements and actions is crucial for the survival of many
species. It is important not only for communication and recognition at a distance, but also for …

Biological motion contains information about the identity of an agent as well as about his or
her actions, intentions, and emotions. The human visual system is highly sensitive to …

People naturally move their heads when they speak, and our study shows that this rhythmic
head motion conveys linguistic information. Three-dimensional head and face motion and …

Abstract Information for identifying a human face can be found both in the invariant structure
of features and in idiosyncratic movements and gestures. When both kinds of information are …

A fully automated, multistage system for real-time recognition of facial expression is
presented. The system uses facial motion to characterize monochrome frontal views of facial …

Facial expressions of emotion powerfully influence social behavior. The distributed network
of brain regions thought to decode these social signals has been empirically defined using …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to compare brain activation to
static facial displays versus dynamic changes in facial identity or emotional expression …

Self-report plays a key role in the identification of developmental prosopagnosia (DP),
providing complementary evidence to computer-based tests of face recognition ability …

Biological motion perception, the recognition of human action depicted in sparse dot
displays, is supported by a network of brain areas including the human posterior superior …