Hsin-Yuan Chen

Oxford Brookes University · Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

In visual perception, human faces are detected efficiently: we look at them preferentially and it is difficult to ignore them. While such preferential processing has been established for faces, little is known about potentially similar processing of body parts such as hands. Oculomotor and related control mechanisms can be quantified by measuring e...

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: It is a part of our everyday perception to notice other people’s hand and finger postures. Hand perception is vital for social interaction and cognitive processes. Occasionally, after an injury, distorted finger postures occur, which are very conspicuous and can make an observer feel uncomfortable. This exceptional salience ref...

PURPOSE: Human beings are understood to apply mental simulation when they view images of hands. One approach to studying this process is to present images of hands on a computer screen while participants give left- and right-hand keyboard responses depending on the stimulus features. As this setup involves spatial proximity between stimuli and resp...

BACKGROUND: In human social interaction, hands convey information. Hand perception should be separated from body perception because they have different visual properties (Bracci, Ietswaart, Peelen, & Cavina-Pratesi, 2010; Miguel Granja Espírito Santo, Maxim, & Schürmann, 2017). While the neural processes of body perception are often studied, only r...

Faces are considered the most important social stimuli. They have special status over other types of visual stimuli. In contrast to other objects, faces capture attention spontaneously from a set of distractors. Although other body parts are also relevant for social communication, it is unknown whether these parts also capture our attention automat...

For humans as social beings, other people’s hands are highly visually conspicuous. Exceptionally striking are hands in other than natural configuration which have been found to elicit distinct brain activation. Here we studied response strength and lateralization of this activation using event-related potentials (ERPs), in particular, occipito-temp...

Major economic issues and policy responses are related to the national economic security. It also result in international disputes, and even outbreak of wars. The nature of the European countries’ economies are different, thus, they difficultly integrate each other. However, due to the integration of the internal market and the euro zone's single c...