Selected Publications

Biederman, I. & Shiffrar, M. (1987). Sexing day-old chicks: a case study and expert systems analysis of a difficult perceptual learning task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13, 640-645. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1990). Apparent motion of the human body. Psychological Science, 1, 257-264. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Pavel, M. (1991). Percepts of rigid motion within and across apertures.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 749-761.. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Shepard, R. N. (1991). Comparison of cube rotations around axes inclined relative to the environment or to the cube. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 44-54. download pdf

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1992). The influence of terminators on motion integration across space. Vision Research, 32 , 263-273. download pdf

Castet, E., Lorenceau, J., Shiffrar, M., & Bonnet, C. (1993). Perceived speed of moving lines depends on orientation, length, speed and luminance. Vision Research, 33, 1921-1936. download pdf

Lorenceau, J., Shiffrar, M., Wells, N., & Castet, E. (1993). Different motion sensitive units are involved in recovering the direction of moving lines. Vision Research, 33, 1207-1217. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1993). Timing and apparent motion path choice with human body photographs. Psychological Science, 4, 379-384. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. (1994). When what meets where. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 96-100. download pdf

Barchilon Ben-Av, M. & Shiffrar, M. (1995). Disambiguating velocity estimates across image space. Vision Research, 35, 2889-2895. download pdf

Shiffrar, M., Li, X., & Lorenceau, J. (1995). Motion integration across differing image features. Vision Research, 35, 2137-2146. download pdf

Heptulla-Chatterjee, S., Freyd, J., & Shiffrar, M. (1996). Configural processing in the perception of apparent biological motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 916-929. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Lorenceau, J. (1996). Increased motion linking across edges at decreased luminance contrast, edge width and duration. Vision Research, 36, 2061-2067. download pdf

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1997). One-shot view invariance in a moving world. Psychological Science, 8, 461-466. download pdf

Shiffrar, M., Lichtey,L., & Heptulla-Chatterjee, S. (1997). Percepts of biological motion across apertures. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 51-59. download pdf

Thornton, I., Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1998). The visual perception of human locomotion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 535-552. download pdf

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Dynamic representations of human body movement. Perception, 28, 49 - 62. download pdf

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The visual representation of three-dimensional, rotating objects. Acta Psychologica: Special Issue on Object Perception & Memory, 102, 265 - 292. download pdf

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The linkage of visual motion signals. Visual Cognition, 6, 431 - 460.. download pdf

Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Subconfigurations of the human form in the perception of biological motion displays . Acta Psychologica: Special Issue on Object Perception & Memory, 102, 293 - 318. download pdf

Loula, F., Kourtzi, Z., & Shiffrar, M. (2000). Surface segmentation cues influence negative priming for novel and familiar shapes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 929 - 944. download pdf

Stevens, J.A., Fonlupt, P., Shiffrar, M., & Decety, J. (2000). New aspects of motion perception: Selective neural encoding of apparent human movements, NeuroReport, 11, 109 - 115. download pdf

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (2001). Visual representation of malleable and rigid objects that deform as they rotate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 335 - 355. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. (2001). Movement and event perception. In Bruce Goldstein (Ed.), The Blackwell Handbook of Perception. (pp. 237-272). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Shiffrar, M. (2001). The visual interpretation of object and human movement.   In Tim F. Shipley & Philip J. Kellman (Eds.), Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision, Advances in Psychology #130 . (pp. 483-508). The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Shiffrar, M. & Pinto, J. (2002). The visual analysis of bodily motion. Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and Performance, Vol. XIX . (Prinz, W., & Hommel, B., Eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 381-399. download pdf

Thornton, I. M., Rensink, R. A., & Shiffrar, M. (2002). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 31, 837-853. download pdf

Jacobs, A., Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (2004).   Experience, context, and the visual perception of human movement, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, volume 30 (5), 822-835. download pdf

Funk, M., Shiffrar, M., & Brugger, P. (2005). Hand movement observation by individuals born without hands: Phantom limb experience constrains visual limb perception. Experimental Brain Research, 164, 341-346. download pdf

Jacobs, A., & Shiffrar, M. (2005). Walking perception by walking observers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 157-169. download pdf

Loula, F., Prasad, S., Harber, K., & Shiffrar, M. (2005). Recognizing people from their movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 210-220 . download pdf

Chouchourelou, A., Matsuka, T., Harber, K., & Shiffrar, M. (2006). The visual analysis of emotional actions. Social Neuroscience, 1(1), 63-74. download pdf

Chouchourelou, A., Matsuka, T., Harber, K., & Shiffrar, M. (2006). Does emotion systematically influence visual perception? Visual Cognition, 14, 82-85. download pdf

Knoblich, G., Grosjean, M., Thornton, I., & Shiffrar, M. (2006). Perception of the human body from the inside out. Oxford University Press. book link

Knoblich, G., Grosjean, M., Thornton, I., & Shiffrar, M. (2006). Integrating perspectives on human body perception. In G. Knoblich, M. Grosjean, I. Thornton, and M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Perception of the human body from the inside out.  Oxford University Press, 3-10.

Shiffrar, M. (2006). Body-based views of the world.  In G. Knoblich, M. Grosjean, I. Thornton, and M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Perception of the human body from the inside out.  Oxford University Press, 135-146.

Virji-Babul, N., Kerns, K., Zhou, E., Kapur, A., & Shiffrar, M. (2006). Perceptual-motor deficits in children with Down syndrome: Implications for intervention. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 10, 74-82. download pdf

Blake, R., & Shiffrar, M. (2007). Perception of Human Motion. The Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 47-73.download pdf

Grosjean, M., Shiffrar, M., & Knoblich, G. (2007). Fitts's Law Holds for Action Perception. Psychological Science, 18(2), 95-99.download pdf

Sebanz, N. & Shiffrar, M. (2007). Bodily bonds: Effects of social context on ideomotor movements. Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition: Attention and Performance,Vol. XXII, Oxford University Press, 267-291.download pdf

Virji-Babul, N., Cheung, T., Weeks, D., Kerns, K., & Shiffrar, M. (2007). Neural activity involved in the perception of human and meaningful object motion, NeuroReport, 18, 1125-1128. download pdf

Kaiser, M. & Shiffrar, M. (2008). Individual differences in perceptual sensitivity to emotional human motion. Visual Cognition, 16, 1115-1119. download pdf

Oh, S. & Shiffrar, M. (2008). Rolling perception without rolling motion. Perception, 37, 317-320. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. (2008). Embodied action perception: Psychophysical studies of the factors defining visual sensitivity to self and other generated actions.  In R. Klatzky, B. MacWhinney, & M. Behrman (Eds.) Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action. Psychology Press, pp. 113-143. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. (2008). The visual perception of dynamic body language. In I. Wachsmuth, M. Lenzen, & G. Knoblich (Eds). Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines, Oxford University Press, pp. 95-110. download pdf

Kaiser, M. & Shiffrar, M. (2009). The visual perception of motion by observers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A review and synthesis. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 16, 761-777. download pdf

Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (2009). The visual perception of human and animal motion in point-light displays. Social Neuroscience, 4(4), 332-346.download pdf

Prasad, S. & Shiffrar, M. (2009). Viewpoint and the recognition of people from their movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 39-49. download pdf

Sebanz, N. & Shiffrar, M. (2009). Detecting deception in a bluffing body: The role of expertise. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 170-175. download pdf

Kaiser, M., Delmolino, L., Tanaka, J. & Shiffrar, M. (2010). Comparison of visual
sensitivity to human and object motion in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism
Research, 3(4), 191-195. download pdf

Serino, A., Casavecchia, C., DeFilippo, L., Coccia, M., Shiffrar, M., & Ladavas, E.
(2010).
Lesions to the motor system affect action understanding. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(3), 413-426. download pdf

Shiffrar, M., Kaiser, M., & Chouchourelou, A. (2010). Seeing human movement as inherently social. In R. B. Adams, Jr., N. Ambady, K. Nakayama, S. Shimojo
(Eds.). The Science of Social Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.
248-263. download pdf

Thomas, J. & Shiffrar, M. (2010). I can see you better if I can hear you coming:
Action-consistent sounds facilitate the visual detection of human gait.
Journal of Vision, 10(12): 14. download pdf

Kaiser, M. D., Shiffrar, M., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2011). Socially tuned: Brain responses differentiating human and animal motion. Social Neuroscience, in press. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. (2011).  People Watching: Visual, motor, and social processes in the perception of human movement. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2, 68-78. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Heinen, T. (2011). Athletic ability changes action perception:
Embodiment in the visual perception of human movement. Zeitschrift fur
Sportpsychologie (German Journal of Sport Psychology), 17(4), 1-13. download pdf

Chouchourelou, A., Jacobs, A., & Shiffrar, M. (2012). What Does “Biological Motion” really mean? Differentiating visual percepts of human, animal, and non-biological motions. In K. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds). Visual perception of the human body in motion. Oxford University Press, in press. download pdf

Johnson, K.. & Shiffrar, M. (Eds.). (2012). Visual perception of the human body in motion. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, in press.

Kaiser, M. D. & Shiffrar, M. (2012). Variability in the visual perception of human motion as a function of the observer’s autistic traits. In K. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds). Visual perception of the human body in motion. Oxford University Press, in press. download pdf

Price, K., Shiffrar, M. & Kerns, K. (2012). Movement perception and movement
production in Asperger’s Syndrome. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, in
press. download pdf

Shiffrar, M. & Thomas, J.P. (2012). Beyond the scientific objectification of the human body: Differentiated analyses of human motion and object motion. In M. A.
Rutherford & V.A. Kuhlmeier (Eds). Social Perception. MIT Press: Bradford
Books, in press. download pdf