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. PDF
Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1990). Apparent motion of the human body. Psychological Science, 1, 257-264. 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.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. PDF
Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1992). The influence of terminators on motion integration across space. Vision Research, 32 , 263-273. 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. 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. PDF
Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1993). Timing and apparent motion path choice with human body photographs. Psychological Science, 4, 379-384. PDF
Shiffrar, M. (1994). When what meets where. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 96-100. PDF
Shiffrar, M., Li, X., & Lorenceau, J. (1995). Motion integration across differing image features. Vision Research, 35, 2137-2146. PDF
Barchilon Ben-Av, M. & Shiffrar, M. (1995). Disambiguating velocity estimates across image space. Vision Research, 35, 2889-2895. 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. PDF
Shiffrar, M. & Lorenceau, J. (1996). Improved motion linking across edges at decreased luminance contrast, edge width and duration. Vision Research, 36, 2061-2067. PDF
Shiffrar, M., Lichtey,L., & Heptulla-Chatterjee, S. (1997). Percepts of biological motion across apertures. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 51-59. PDF
Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1997). One-shot view invariance in a moving world. Psychological Science, 8, 461-466. PDF
Thornton, I., Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1998). The visual perception of human locomotion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 535-552. PDF
Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Dynamic representations of human body movement. Perception, 28, 49 - 62. 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 . PDF
Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The linkage of visual motion signals. Visual Cognition, 6, 431 - 460. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. PDF
Thornton, I. M., Rensink, R. A., & Shiffrar, M. (2002). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 31, 837-853. 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. PDF
Jacobs, A., & Shiffrar, M. (2005). Walking perception by walking observers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31, 157-169. 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 . 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. PDF