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.