Observation of another's action but not eye gaze triggers allocentric visual perspective

Mazzarella, Elisabetta; Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.; Trojano, Luigi; Mastromauro, Bianca; Conson, Massimiliano

doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.697905

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“…Similar results are found when making judgements about the location of another item in relation to a person (e.g. is the flower on his left or his right) (Kessler and Thomson 2009), and the propensity to make egocentric transformations is modulated by the social cues in the image such as gaze direction (Mazzarella et al 2012). …”

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Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Marsh

Hamilton

et al. 2014

J Autism Dev Disord

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Previous research into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has shown people with autism to be impaired at visual perspective taking. However it is still unclear to what extent the spatial mechanisms underlying this ability contribute to these difficulties. In the current experiment we examine spatial transformations in adults with ASD and typical adults. Participants performed egocentric transformations and mental rotation of bodies and cars. Results indicated that participants with ASD had general perceptual differences impacting on response times across tasks. However, they also showed more specific differences in the egocentric task suggesting particular difficulty with using the self as a reference frame. These findings suggest that impaired perspective taking could be grounded in difficulty with the spatial transformation used to imagine the self in someone else's place. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York

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Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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“…However, when gaze and action convey incongruous information making the agent's intention ambiguous, gaze direction becomes relevant and may increase spontaneous perspective taking. These findings may help to reconcile inconsistent findings concerning the relative contributions of gaze and action cues to perspective taking (e.g., Tversky and Hard, 2009; Mazzarella et al, 2012) by showing that, rather than depending on specific bodily cues (and not others), perspective taking is influenced by the attribution of intentions to others.…”

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“…Mazzarella et al (2012) reported that action triggered perspective-taking, but gaze cues did not. They suggests that this may be because eye gaze is not critically relevant, as grasping is, to understanding what an actor is currently doing.…”

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“…Using static photographs, Tversky and Hard (2009) found no significant difference in the proportion of description from the other's point of view for looking and looking-and-reaching scenes, suggesting that gaze shifts and overt hand actions have similar effects on perspective taking. In contrast, however, Mazzarella et al (2012) found that the actor's hand action, but not the actor's gaze, modulated the tendency to adopt his perspective. The question remains therefore open as to whether gaze contributes to perspective taking.…”

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“…The “mere presence” of a human body does not seem sufficient to elicit spontaneous perspective taking (Mazzarella et al, 2012). People adopt the perspective of another person who acts (Frischen et al, 2009; Thirioux et al, 2010) or is positioned to act on objects and even more so when attention is drawn to the person's potential for action, for instance, by phrasing the query about spatial relations in terms of action (e.g., “In relation to the bottle, where does he place the book?” Tversky and Hard, 2009).…”

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Through your eyes: incongruence of gaze and action increases spontaneous perspective taking

Furlanetto¹,

Cavallo²,

Manera³

et al. 2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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What makes people spontaneously adopt the perspective of others? Previous work suggested that perspective taking can serve understanding the actions of others. Two studies corroborate and extend that interpretation. The first study varied cues to intentionality of eye gaze and action, and found that the more the actor was perceived as potentially interacting with the objects, the stronger the tendency to take his perspective. The second study investigated how manipulations of gaze affect the tendency to adopt the perspective of another reaching for an object. Eliminating gaze cues by blurring the actor's face did not reduce perspective-taking, suggesting that in the absence of gaze information, observers rely entirely on the action. Intriguingly, perspective-taking was higher when gaze and action did not signal the same intention, suggesting that in presence of ambiguous behavioral intention, people are more likely take the other's perspective to try to understand the action.

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“Put Myself Into Your Place”: Embodied Simulation and Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Embodied cognition theories hold that cognitive processes are grounded in bodily states. Embodied processes in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have classically been investigated in studies on imitation. Several observations suggested that unlike typical individuals who are able of copying the model's actions from the model's position, individuals with ASD tend to reenact the model's actions from their own egocentric perspective. Here, we performed two behavioral experiments to directly test the ability of ASD individuals to adopt another person's point of view. In Experiment 1, participants had to explicitly judge the left/right location of a target object in a scene from their own or the actor's point of view (visual perspective taking task). In Experiment 2, participants had to perform left/right judgments on front-facing or back-facing human body images (own body transformation task). Both tasks can be solved by mentally simulating one's own body motion to imagine oneself transforming into the position of another person (embodied simulation strategy), or by resorting to visual/spatial processes, such as mental object rotation (nonembodied strategy). Results of both experiments showed that individual with ASD solved the tasks mainly relying on a nonembodied strategy, whereas typical controls adopted an embodied strategy. Moreover, in the visual perspective taking task ASD participants had more difficulties than controls in inhibiting other-perspective when directed to keep one's own point of view. These findings suggested that, in social cognitive tasks, individuals with ASD do not resort to embodied simulation and have difficulties in cognitive control over self- and other-perspective.

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Observation of another's action but not eye gaze triggers allocentric visual perspective

Cited by 35 publications

References 38 publications

Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Spatial Transformations of Bodies and Objects in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Through your eyes: incongruence of gaze and action increases spontaneous perspective taking

“Put Myself Into Your Place”: Embodied Simulation and Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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