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Adaptation of Perceived Animacy from Biological Motion: Evidence for a “Life Motion Detector”

2025-09-08

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Humans can readily perceive animacy from biological motion (BM) - the distinctive movement patterns of living entities. However, how the human brain extracts animacy information from BM remains largely unclear. The current study investigated this issue using visual adaptation, a non-invasive tool for revealing neural mechanisms underlying the selective processing of specific properties. Results showed that prolong...

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Literature Corpus work: 59ba347d-91a5-58fb-914d-81805de17948
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.03.673621

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