Research in this area links with interests in social perception in children with developmental difficulties and the perception of biological motion. Recent work has demonstrated that typical infants of six months of age bind a solid vertical form to a human point light display but only when upright and in phase.
The movie opposite was similar to that used by Moore et al, (2007) and shows a human PLD walking along as if being sliced by a table. A selective sensitivity to a violation of the solidity of the underlying form for upright and in phase human PLDs is apparent in infants at six months of age. :
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Moore, D.G. (in press. 2011) Understanding form and movement in human point-light displays: what, when and how? In: C. Brownell & Slaughter V. (Eds) Body Representation in Early Development. Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development. Cambridge University Press
Garib-Penna, S., Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2009). Can Children with Autism Recognise Emotions from Moving Faces? Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, May, Chicago, USA
Parron, C., Da Fonseca, D., Moore, D.G., Monfardini, E, Poinso, F. & Deruelle, C. (2008) Recognition of biological motion in high functioning children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Autism 12, 261-274
Garib-Penna, S., Moore, D. G., & George, R. (2008). What Cognitive Factors Predict Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism? Poster presentation at the British Psychological Society - Developmental Section, September, Oxford, UK
Hubert, B., Wicker, B., Moore, D.G., Monfardini, E., & Deruelle, C. (2007). Recognition of emotional and non-emotional biological motion in adults with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1386–1392.
Moore, D.G., Goodwin, J.E., George, R., Axelsson, E., & Braddick, F. (2007). Infants perceive human point-light displays as solid forms. Cognition, 104, 163–436
Moore, D.G., Hobson, R.P., & Lee, A. (1997). Components of person-perception: an investigation with autistic, non-autistic retarded and typically developing children and adolescents. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 401–423.
Moore, D.G., Hobson, R.P., & Anderson, M. (1995). Person perception: does it involve IQ-independent perceptual processing? Intelligence, 20, 65–86.
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