[cogsci-colloquia] *Reminder* Cognitive Sciences Colloquium, Today @ 4pm in SSPA 2112

[Jayne Lee]

COLLOQUIUM
Department of Cognitive Sciences
Monday, November 5, 2007, 4:00pm  SSPA 2112
Light refreshments will be served.





Emily Grossman
Department of Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine


Contemporary issues in biological motion perception

The recognition of human actions from point-light animations has
sparked a small body of research for the last three decades. How do
we recognize complex activities from these sparse displays? How is
this achieved in the neural machinery?  I will discuss four
experiments, completed and ongoing in my laboratory, that investigate
contemporary issues in biological motion.  The results from these
experiments argue that the current claims of biological motion
perception as computed from stationary form analysis are misguided,
and instead suggest the critical features for analyzing point-light
displays are inherently dynamic. Additional experiments examine the
specificity with which biological motion is encoded on the human
STS.  The results from these experiments as a whole provide a
framework with which we can disentangle the functional roles of the
brain areas supporting biological motion perception.



Jayne Lee
Department Assistant
Department of Cognitive Sciences
University of California at Irvine
3215 Social Science Plaza B
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Phone: 949.824.3771
Fax: 949.824.2307
Email: jayne.lee at uci.edu