Biological Motion and Social Cognition

It is often said that the perception of biological motion is of support to social cognition, which might be relying on embodiment and biological motion (Miller and Saygin, 2013). Direction discrimination assignments were applied with point like walkers. The results of the experiments revealed that there are differences among individual capabilities in the use of form and motion stimuli in the biological motion tasks. Social perception was found to be related to stimuli for processing of biological motion. It was suggested that the association that was found among social perception and biological motion might be a special aspect of a visual form mechanism.