To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...
People with extended visuomotor experience with inverted movements -- such as vertical dancers -- can overcome the inversion effect in perceiving biological motion. Previous studies have determined ...
Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual ...
Experimental design (a) and results for the space experiment (b) and the ground-based control experiments (c & d). BMIE: the normalized BM inversion effect; BMUpr & BMInv: task performances for the ...
image: Emily Brumbaugh, a 2014 University of Wyoming graduate, participates in a vertical dance performance. Qin Zhu, a UW professor of kinesiology and health, and Margaret Wilson, professor and head ...