Agency attribution and visuospatial perspective taking

Zwickel, Jan

doi:10.3758/pbr.16.6.1089

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“…Second, it supports the controversial view (Heyes, in press;Moore & Corkum, 1994;Perner, 2010;Perner & Ruffman, 2005), based primarily on eye movement studies, that infants are capable of mentalizing (Baillargeon, Scott, & He, 2010;Onishi & Baillargeon, 2005). A range of procedures have been used to provide evidence of implicit mentalizing in adults (Heyes, under review), testing for automatic representation of what others see (Samson, Apperly, Braithwaite, Andrews, & Bodley Scott, 2010;Zwickel, 2009), intend (Sebanz, Knoblich, & Prinz, 2003), and believe (Kovács, Téglás, & Endress, 2010;Senju, Southgate, White, & Frith, 2009). One of these procedures, 4 which we will call the 'dot perspective task', has been used in a careful and systematic way to examine 'perspective--taking'; automatic representation of what others can see.…”

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Avatars and arrows: Implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing?

Santiesteban¹,

Catmur

Hopkins³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Previous studies using the dot perspective task have shown that adults are slower to verify the number of dots they can see in a picture when a human figure in the picture, an avatar, can see a different number of dots. This "self-consistency effect," which occurs even when the avatar's perspective is formally task-irrelevant, has been interpreted as evidence of implicit mentalizing; that humans can think about the mental states of others via dedicated, automatic processes. We tested this interpretation by giving participants 2 versions of the dot perspective task. In some trials, the avatar was presented as in previous experiments, and in other trials the avatar was replaced by an arrow with similar low-level features. We found self-consistency effects of comparable size in the avatar and arrow conditions, suggesting that self-consistency effects in the dot perspective task are due to domain-general processes such as those that mediate automatic attentional orienting.

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Avatars and arrows: Implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing?

Santiesteban¹,

Catmur

Hopkins³

et al. 2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…Evidence that the presence of humans (as opposed to non-human entities) changes the spatial coding of visual events is provided by recent studies investigating spontaneous perspective taking (Frischen et al, 2009;Tversky and Hard, 2009;Zwickel, 2009;Samson et al, 2010;Zwickel and Muller, 2010). For example, observers have been shown to be slower to make self-perspective judgments when the scene includes a human model looking at the scene from a different perspective.…”

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In your place: neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking

Becchio

Giudice

Monte

et al. 2011

Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci

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Humans are able to mentally adopt the spatial perspective of others and represent the visual world from their point of view. Here, we present neuropsychological evidence that information inaccessible from an egocentric perspective can be accessed from the perspective of another person. Patients affected by left neglect were asked to describe arrays of objects from their own egocentric perspective, from an opposite perspective (disembodied perspective taking), and from the point of view of another person actually seated in front of them (embodied perspective taking). Although disembodied perspective-taking ameliorated neglect severity, there was an even stronger positive effect of embodied perspective-taking: items presented on the left and neglected when reported from the egocentric perspective were instead recovered when patients assumed the perspective of the other. These findings suggest that perspective-taking entails an altercentric remapping of space, i.e. remapping of objects and locations coded with reference to the other person's body.

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“…These animations will be referred to as random animations. As Zwickel (2009) has shown, animations of the ToM variety make observers spontaneously adopt the visuospatial perspective of the triangles, whereas observers of random animations show no such effect. To examine how this SPT interacts with IPT, we briefly displayed an arrow and a dot within the large triangle during the animations.…”

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“…What is more, people even adopt the perspective of geometrical shapes if the movement of the shapes appears intentional (Zwickel, 2009). Surprisingly, the relationship of this spontaneous perspective taking (SPT) to processes engaged when people are explicitly instructed to adopt a certain perspective (instructed perspective taking, IPT) or to mentally rotate objects has as yet received little attention.…”

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“…For example, when people are asked to describe the location of objects, they often do so in relation to other people: When an observer faces another person, a bottle on the left as seen from the perspective of the observer is often described as being on the right of the observed person (Tversky & Hard, 2009). This tendency of SPT is so prevalent that, as a recent study showed (Zwickel, 2009), people in certain situations even spontaneously adopt the perspective of geometrical objects; that is, their egocentric reference frame is rotated to match the frame of the geometrical objects. In Zwickel's study, participants watched animations that involved simple geometric shapes-the socalled Frith-Happé animations (Abell, Happé, & Frith, 2000).…”

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On the relation between spontaneous perspective taking and other visuospatial processes

Zwickel

Müller

2013

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Common processes and representations engaged by visuospatial tasks were investigated by looking at four frequently used visuospatial research paradigms, the aim being to contribute to a better understanding of which specific processes are addressed in the different paradigms compared. In particular, the relation between spontaneous and instructed perspective taking, as well as mental rotation of body-part/non-body-part objects, was investigated. To this end, participants watched animations that have been shown to lead to spontaneous perspective taking. While they were watching these animations, participants were asked to explicitly adopt another perspective (Experiment 1), perform a mental object rotation task that involved a nonbody-part object (Experiment 2), or perform a mental rotation of a body-part object (Experiment 3). Patterns of interference between the tasks, reflected in the reaction time patterns, showed that spontaneous and instructed perspective taking rely on similar representational elements to encode orientation. By contrast, no such overlap was found between spontaneous perspective taking and the rotation of non-body-part objects. Also, no overlap in orientation representation was evident with mental body-part rotations. Instead of an overlap in orientation representations, the results suggest that spontaneous perspective taking and the mental rotation of body parts rely on similar-presumably, motor-processes. These findings support the view that motor processes are involved in perspective taking and mental rotation of body parts. Keywords Embodied cognition . Social cognition . Mental modelsAdequate social behavior nearly always requires the ability to appreciate that a given situation is perceived and interpreted differently by different people involved. Imagine a football game in which the players did not constantly monitor what other players and the referee could see and how a dive would be interpreted. Or think of situations in which people judge whether or not an approaching car is seen by a child-an ability that can save a life. Because representing how others perceive a given situation is so frequently encountered in,

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Agency attribution and visuospatial perspective taking

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Avatars and arrows: Implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing?

Avatars and arrows: Implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing?

In your place: neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking

On the relation between spontaneous perspective taking and other visuospatial processes

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