OVERVIEW
West Virginia University
Virtual Environments Laboratory
Center for Advanced Imaging
Summer 2003
My research work was to create a virtual movie for use in brain research. Studies show that recognizing the movements of others is essential for communication and social interaction. They also propose that humans evolved brain systems to recognize the movements of others in order to detect potential predators. This study was designed to examine brain regions involved in the recognition of human movements. Altering various aspects of the moving form (e.g. inverting the figure, or spatially rearranging elements of the figure) allows us to examine the roles of different brain regions in the recognition process. The realistic animations of a human walker were created from a set of motion files, known as BioVision Hierarchical Files (BVH).
PUBLISHED PAPER
Journal of Neuroscience
SOFTWARE
Adobe Premier
Curious Labs Poser
Mathworks MatLab
Microsoft Excel
TEAM
Michele Clarke
Tennille Steward
CLIENTS
Aina Puce
Jim Thompson