Adaptation of Perceived Animacy from Biological Motion: Evidence for a "Life Motion Detector"
Mei Juan Huang, Xinlin Yang, Geqing Yang, Li Shen, Zhaoqi Hu, Ying Wang, Yi D. Jiang
The paper investigates how the human brain perceives animacy from biological motion using visual adaptation, finding that motion signals, especially from feet, influence animacy perception across species.
bioRxiv · Sep 3, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience