{"id":7387,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_motion\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:20","slug":"biological_motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes referred to as biomechanics motion, it is perception of the motion of independent stimulus elements as part of a moving human or animal figure, as when luminous dots are placed on a walking person and recorded in isolation (i.e., as point-light displays). &nbsp;In particular,the human visual system is very apt at recognising many aspects of biological, psychological, and social significance in animate motion, suggesting that motion has priority in vision. &nbsp;For example, human motion conveys a wealth of information about the actions, intentions, emotions, and personality traits of a person. &nbsp;How we manage to do this still remains something of a puzzle (i.e., how biological and psychological information is detected in visual motion patterns). &nbsp;One of the issues not entirely resolved is the informational content in point-light displays that enables us to use biological motion in this way. &nbsp;Much of the original work on this topic is due to the work <a href=\"http:\/\/people.psych.cornell.edu\/~jec7\/pubs\/JOMO.PDF\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/people.psych.cornell.edu\/~jec7\/pubs\/JOMO.PDF  &amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gunnar Johansson<\/a> in the 1970s that he first published in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"motion_perception\">Motion perception<\/a>, <a href=\"perception\">Perception<\/a>, Point-light display<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes referred to as biomechanics motion, it is perception of the motion of independent stimulus elements as part of a moving human or animal figure, as when luminous dots are placed on a walking person and recorded in isolation (i.e., as point-light displays). &nbsp;In particular,the human visual system is very apt at recognising many aspects &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/biological_motion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biological motion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}