Sensory and Motor Brain Areas Supporting Biological Motion Perception

This chapter summarizes recent research on biological motion perception using structural brain imaging and lesion-mapping techniques in brain-lesioned patients. It also explores how these findings complement research using functional neuroimaging in the healthy human brain and neurophysiological studies on nonhuman primates. Such converging methods have allowed for the identification of a network of brain areas that are involved in the perception of biological motion and areas that are causally linked to deficits in biological motion perception.