Abstract: Abstract:Abstract: Similar to the human face, human body is symmetrical. It is composed by body parts according to certain spatial relationships. Human body can provide information about individual’s identity, age, gender, intention, emotional state, and so on. Perceptions of body together with perceptions of face promote individual’s identity discrimination. Body perception refers to the detection, perception or recognition about the visual human body stimuli. Body perception, just as face perception, should be paid more attention in scientific research. The purpose of the article is to outline and evaluate cognitive and neural studies about body perception. This article mainly focuses on cognitive and neural mechanisms of body perception. Finally, the article made a number of open issues for future researches.

Key words: body perception, configural process, EBA, FBA, inversion effect

摘要： 摘 要：人类躯体是由各部位按照一定的空间关系组成的，与人类面孔相似，也是对称的。它也能提供个体身份和行为方式等信息，如年龄、性别、意图、情感状态等。它与面孔相辅相成，共同促成对个体身份的辨别。躯体知觉是指大脑对进入视觉加工系统中的人类躯体刺激的侦察，感知或识别。躯体知觉应当如面孔知觉研究一样受到更多的关注。文章概述、评价了躯体知觉相关的认知神经研究，着重介绍了躯体知觉的认知和神经机制，并提出了一些值得进一步研究的问题。

关键词: 躯体知觉, 轮廓化加工, EBA, FBA, 倒置效应