Similarities and differences in visual and spatial perspective-taking processes

Surtees, Andrew; Apperly, Ian A.; Samson, Dana

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.06.008

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“…Michelon & Zachs (2006) found longer response times at greater distance in a left-right task, but they were able to determine that this was likely due to a conflation of linear distance and angular distance from the avatar's midline. More recently, Surtees et al (2013a) did a comparison of four different kinds of perspective-taking task (including a left-right task) and found a main effect of distance, but no interaction between distance and the type of task. But in another study, Surtees et al (2013b) found no effect of distance in a left-right spatial perspective-taking task.…”

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Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: The misalignment paradigm

Alsmith

Ferrè

Longo

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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Word count: 5724 words (excluding references and title page)The Misalignment Paradigm 2 AbstractWhen we represent someone's view of a scene as egocentrically structured, where do we represent the origin of the reference frame? By analysing responses in a spatial perspectivetaking task as a function of spatial location with respect to both head and torso, we isolated the respective contribution of each part to spatial judgments. Both the head and the torso contributed to judgements, though with greater contributions from the torso. A second experiment manipulating visual contrast of the torso showed that this does not reflect lowlevel differences in visual salience between body parts. Our results demonstrate that spatial perspective-taking relies on a weighted combination of reference frames centred on different parts of the body.The Misalignment Paradigm 3

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Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: The misalignment paradigm

Alsmith

Ferrè

Longo

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Future research should examine whether anxiety and other uncertainty-associated emotions also increase egocentric interference on visual perspective-taking tasks in which participants must simply identify whether another person can see an object or not (for more on the distinction between spatial and visual perspective taking, see Surtees, Apperly, & Samson, 2013).…”

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Anxious and egocentric: How specific emotions influence perspective taking.

Todd

Forstmann

Burgmer

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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People frequently feel anxious. Although prior research has extensively studied how feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety on perceptual and conceptual forms of perspective taking. Compared with participants experiencing other negative, high-arousal emotions (i.e., anger or disgust) or neutral feelings, anxious participants displayed greater egocentrism in their mental-state reasoning: They were more likely to describe an object using their own spatial perspective, had more difficulty resisting egocentric interference when identifying an object from others' spatial perspectives, and relied more heavily on privileged knowledge when inferring others' beliefs. Using both experimental-causal-chain and measurement-of-mediation approaches, we found that these effects were explained, in part, by uncertainty appraisal tendencies. Further supporting the role of uncertainty, a positive emotion associated with uncertainty (i.e., surprise) produced increases in egocentrism that were similar to anxiety. Collectively, the results suggest that incidentally experiencing emotions associated with uncertainty increase reliance on one's own egocentric perspective when reasoning about the mental states of others.

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“…Here we consider in more detail the spatial transformations which underlie VPT (Surtees et al 2013;Yu and Zacks 2010) and whether these may be impaired in people with autism.…”

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“…Other studies have also linked spatial and social cognitive abilities in typical participants (Clements-Stephens et al 2013;Surtees et al 2013). Here we consider in more detail the spatial transformations which underlie VPT (Surtees et al 2013;Yu and Zacks 2010) and whether these may be impaired in people with autism.…”

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“…Egocentric (or 'selfbased') transformations are used when we transform our own body as a whole into alignment with a new position in space (Zacks et al 1999). Egocentric transformations contribute to VPT, because they allow a person to place themselves in another's location, and then to imagine what another person can see from a different viewpoint (Steggemann et al 2011;Surtees et al 2013;Yu and Zacks 2010) . However, VPT requires the additional step of considering what the other can see, after the egocentric transformation (Surtees et al 2013).…”

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

Pearson

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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Similarities and differences in visual and spatial perspective-taking processes

Cited by 135 publications

References 34 publications

Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: The misalignment paradigm

Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: The misalignment paradigm

Anxious and egocentric: How specific emotions influence perspective taking.

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

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