Attribution of vision and knowledge in ‘spontaneous perspective taking’

Millett, Abbie C.; D’Souza, Antonia D. C.; Cole, Geoff G.

doi:10.1007/s00426-019-01179-1

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“…Whilst studies have suggested that mental state attributions do not always directly guide gaze cueing (Gobel et al, 2018;Kingstone et al, 2019). Nevertheless, the findings of this study contrast with recent research, which argues that the processes underlying reflexive gaze following are isolated from the influence of theory of mind or perspective taking processes (Millett et al, 2019;. These studies draw their conclusions from experiments demonstrating that participants can show perspective taking effects even in the absence of a social partner (Wilson et al, 2017), or fail to take into account an obstacle blocking a partner's view and respond as if the partner is able to 'see' through the barrier (as in line-of-sight barrier tasks; Cole et al, 2015).…”

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Gaze cueing, mental States, and the effect of autistic traits

Morgan

Smith

Freeth

2021

Atten Percept Psychophys

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The ability to interpret and follow the gaze of our social partners is an integral skill in human communication. Recent research has demonstrated that gaze following behaviour is influenced by theory of mind (ToM) processes. However, it has yet to be determined whether the modulation of gaze cueing by ToM is affected by individual differences, such as autistic traits. The aim of this experiment was to establish whether autistic traits in neurotypical populations affect the mediation of gaze cueing by ToM processes. This study used a gaze cueing paradigm within a change detection task. Participants’ perception of a gaze cue was manipulated such that they only believed the cue to be able to ‘see’ in one condition. The results revealed that participants in the Low Autistic Traits group were significantly influenced by the mental state of the gaze cue and were more accurate on valid trials when they believed the cue could ‘see’. By contrast, participants in the High Autistic Traits group were also more accurate on valid trials, but this was not influenced by the mental state of the gaze cue. This study therefore provides evidence that autistic traits influence the extent to which mental state attributions modulate social attention in neurotypical adults.

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Gaze cueing, mental States, and the effect of autistic traits

Morgan

Smith

Freeth

2021

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…This necessarily means that if, for example, a ‘perspective-taking’ effect is not abolished when the agent’s view of the critical stimuli is blocked, then that paradigm is not concerned with visual perspective-taking (see [ 31 , 32 , 33 ]; note, as these references attest, the attempt to abolish a “perspective-taking” effect by blocking the line-of-sight has produced mixed/conflicting results). The same is true if an effect is not abolished when an agent is replaced by a non-agent, such as a chair (e.g., [ 34 , 35 ]). Such paradigms will therefore be of limited value in helping to inform or develop a theory of visual perspective-taking.…”

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“…Whilst it is tempting to say their “viewpoint”, or what they can see (i.e., their “perspective”) has been taken, we now know that inanimate objects without a perspective can create the same ambiguous number effect as a human agent does. For example, if the agent is replaced by a chair, the number “68” is as ambiguous as when the agent is there [ 35 ]. The chair effectively informs the observer that the number can also be “89”.…”

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Perspective-Taking: In Search of a Theory

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Millett

Samuel

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Perspective-taking has been one of the central concerns of work on social attention and developmental psychology for the past 60 years. Despite its prominence, there is no formal description of what it means to represent another’s viewpoint. The present article argues that such a description is now required in the form of theory—a theory that should address a number of issues that are central to the notion of assuming another’s viewpoint. After suggesting that the mental imagery debate provides a good framework for understanding some of the issues and problems surrounding perspective-taking, we set out nine points that we believe any theory of perspective-taking should consider.

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“…Furthermore, while some studies have found no effect of the agent's capacity to see (e.g. [128,129], others found that factors that should impede vision influence (like goggles [130,131], blindfolds [64] or barriers [76,132] modulate altercentric interference.…”

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Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing

Kampis

Southgate

2020

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Humans are ultra-social, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary mind. Over the last decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual cognition is influenced by the presence of others. Not only do we rapidly identify others in our environment, but we align our attention with their attention, which influences what we perceive, represent and remember; even when our immediate goals do not involve coordination. The present article refers to the human sensitivity to others and to the targets and content of their attention as 'altercentrism'; and aims to bring seemingly disparate findings together, suggesting that they are all reflections of the altercentric nature of human cognition.

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Attribution of vision and knowledge in ‘spontaneous perspective taking’

Cited by 13 publications

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Gaze cueing, mental States, and the effect of autistic traits

Gaze cueing, mental States, and the effect of autistic traits

Perspective-Taking: In Search of a Theory

Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing

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