People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

I. Introduction Chapter 1: Making Great Strides: Advances in Research on the Perception of the Human Body Chapter 2: Gunnar Johansson, Events, and Biological Motion II. Psychophysics Chapter 3: Top-Down versus Bottom-up Processing of Biological Motion Chapter 4: Seeing You through Me: Creating Self-Other Correspondences for Body Perception Chapter 5: What Does " Really Mean? Differentiating Visual Percepts of Human, Animal, and Non-biological Motions Chapter 6: Shape-Independent Processing of Biological Motion Chapter 7: Action Perception from a Common Coding Perspective III. Development and Individual Differences Chapter 8: Developmental Origins of Biological Motion Perception Chapter 9: Experience and the Perception of Biological Motion Chapter 10: Variability in the Visual Perception of Human Motion as a Function of the Observer's Autistic Traits Chapter 11: Development of Body Motion Processing in Normalcy and Pathology IV. Social Perspectives Chapter 12: Person (Mis)Perception? On the Biased Representation of the Human Body. Chapter 13: It's the Way You Walk: Kinematic Specification of Vulnerability to Attack Chapter 14: Coordinating Social Beings in Motion Chapter 15: Functionalism Redux: How Adaptive Action Constrains Perception, Simulation, and Evolved Intuitions V. Neurophysiology Chapter 16: Neural mechanisms for action observation Chapter 17: Neural Mechanisms for Biological Motion and Animacy Chapter 18: The How, When, and Why of Configural Processing in the Perception of Human Movement Chapter 19: Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception: Moving towards an Understanding of Autism Chapter 20: From Body Perception to Action Preparation: A Distributed Neural System for Viewing Bodily Expressions of Emotion Chapter 21: Sensory and Motor Brain Areas Subserving Biological Motion Perception: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Studies Chapter 22: Computational Mechanisms of the Visual Processing of Action Stimuli Index