“…This view would also cohere well with evidence from visual perspective taking indicating that children are able to take the perspective of another person at as young as 2.5 years, but only develop the ability to be able to contrast that perspective with their own at age 4 (Moll, Meltzoff, Merzsch, & Tomasello, 2013;Moll & Tomasello, 2012). Specifically, in these tasks children struggled if the task was such that it required them to switch from their own perspective to that of the other person, which may be because if the child's own perspective is made salient, they then struggle to consistently use the perspective of the other person and access the relevant information (Wolf, 2021). Plausibly, it is easier to relate different perspectives with each other or even make use of them simultaneously when they are not directly in conflict or inconsistent with each other, thereby allowing children to demonstrate factive ToM before non-factive ToM.…”