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 …

Natural movements of the face and body, as well as voice, provide converging cues to a
person's identity. To date, person recognition has been studied primarily with static images …

Derived from rapid advances in computer vision and machine learning, video analysis tasks
have been moving from inferring the present state to predicting the future state. Vision-based …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

Filmmakers use continuity editing to engender a sense of situational continuity or
discontinuity at editing boundaries. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of …

In this research, the authors found that people use speed of movement to infer the presence
of mind and mental attributes such as intention, consciousness, thought, and intelligence in …

The purpose of this study was to identify the movement characteristics associated with
positive and negative emotions experienced during walking. Joy, contentment, anger …

Studies of deception detection traditionally have focused on verbal communication.
Nevertheless, people commonly deceive others through nonverbal cues. Previous research …

We are all constantly going in and out of sync with the people we meet in our lives:
significant others, incidental encounters, and strangers. Synchrony is a ubiquitous …