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 movements of the faces and bodies of other conspecifics provide stimuli of considerable
interest to the social primate. Studies of single cells, field potential recordings and functional …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking,
has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

The essential nature of learning is primarily thought of as a verbal process or function, but
this notion conveys that pre-linguistic infants do not learn. Far from being" blank slates" that …

Typically developing human infants preferentially attend to biological motion within the first
days of life. This ability is highly conserved across species, and is believed to be critical for …

An inborn predisposition to attend to biological motion has long been theorized, but had so
far been demonstrated only in one animal species (the domestic chicken). In particular, no …

" Don Hoffman... combines a deep understanding of the logic of perception, a gift for
explaining it with simple displays that anyone can-quite literally-see, and a refreshing sense …

Visual processing of biological motion (BM) produced by living organisms is of immense
value for successful daily-life activities and, in particular, for adaptive social behavior and …