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Predictive processing in biological motion perception: Evidence from human behavior.

Hüseyin O Elmas^1,2, Sena Er^1,2, Ada D Rezaki^2,3,4

¹Department of Neuroscience, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

|July 15, 2025

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Prior expectations about actions, but not emotion or gender, significantly impact biological motion perception. This suggests action cues, when moderately reliable, influence how we interpret movements.

Keywords:

biological motion perception individuation predictive processing prior information

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Perception Psychology

Background:

Biological motion perception is vital for social interaction.
Traditionally viewed as bottom-up, top-down influences like expectation are increasingly recognized, especially in complex scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how expectation modulates biological motion perception.
To examine the influence of prior information about action, emotion, and gender on processing point-light display (PLD) stimuli.

Main Methods:

Utilized a cued individuation task with point-light display (PLD) stimuli.
Conducted three experiments varying cue validity for action, emotion, and gender.

Main Results:

A significant congruency effect was found for action cues, with slower performance in incongruent trials.
This action-related congruency effect was primarily driven by the 75% validity condition.
No congruency effect was observed for emotion or gender cues.

Conclusions:

Action-related prior information, particularly when moderately reliable, influences biological motion perception.
Findings align with predictive processing, indicating context-dependent integration of top-down and bottom-up processes.
Future models should incorporate naturalistic stimuli for a comprehensive understanding of biological motion perception.