Human biological and nonbiological point-light movements: Creation and validation of the dataset

Autor(es)

Lapenta, Olivia Morgan ^{[1, 2]} ; Xavier, Ana Paula ^[3] ; Correa, Sonia Cavalcanti ^[3] ; Boggio, Paulo Sergio ^{[1, 2]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Ctr Hlth & Biol Sci, Social & Cognit Neurosci Lab, Rua Piaui 181, 10th Floor, BR-01241001 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Ctr Hlth & Biol Sci, Dev Disorders Program, Rua Piaui 181, 10th Floor, BR-01241001 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

^[3] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Ctr Hlth & Biol Sci, Lab Movement Sci, Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS; v. 49, n. 6, p. 2083-2092, DEC 2017.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Human action perception is so powerful that people can identify movement efficiently in the absence of pictorial information, such as in point-light displays. Interest is growing in this type of stimulus for research in neuroscience. This interest stems from the advantage of separating the component of pure human action kinematics from other pictorial information, such as facial expression and muscle contraction. Although several groups have previously developed datasets of human point-light actions, due to the lack of datasets composed of daily actions with short durations, we developed 20 biological and 40 control (scrambled) point-light movements by using the technique of recording people wearing reflector patches. The videos are about 1 s long. Subsequently, we performed a judgment task in which 100 participants (50 male and 50 female) evaluated each video according to three categories: human action resemblance, performed action, and gender of actor. We present the mean scores of each evaluation for each video, and further propose a selection of the most suitable videos to be used as human point-light action displays and scrambled point-light displays for control. Finally, we discuss our findings on the gender attributions of the point-light displays. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 12/24696-1 - A importância da rede cortical motora na percepção de movimentos humanos
• Beneficiário: Olivia Morgan Lapenta
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado