People watching : Social Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception / edited by Kerri L. Johnson, Maggie Shiffrar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Making great strides : advances in research on the perception of the human body -- Gunnar johansson, events, and biological motion -- Psychophysics -- Top-down versus bottom-up processing of biological motion -- Seeing you through me : creating self-other correspondences for body perception -- What does "biological motion" really mean? : differentiating visual percepts of human, animal, and non-biological motions -- Shape-independent processing of biological motion -- Action perception from a common coding perspective -- Development and individual differences -- Developmental origins of biological motion perception -- Experience and the perception of biological motion -- Variability in the visual perception of human motion as a function of the observer's autistic traits -- Development of body motion processing in normalcy and pathology -- Social perspectives -- Person (mis)perception on the biased representation of the human body -- It's the way you walk kinematic specification of vulnerability to attack -- Coordinating social beings in motion -- Functionalism redux : how adaptive action constrains perception, simulation, and evolved intuitions -- Neurophysiology -- Neural mechanisms for action observation -- Neural mechanisms for biological motion and animacy -- The how, when, and why of configural processing in the perception of human movement -- Brain mechanisms for social perception : moving towards an understanding of autism -- From body perception to action preparation : a distributed neural system for viewing bodily expressions of emotion -- Sensory and motor brain areas subserving biological motion perception : neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies -- Computational mechanisms of the visual processing of action stimuli.