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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Visuospatial perspective-taking is linked to empathy.
  • Schizophrenia and related traits are associated with reduced empathy and abnormal visuospatial processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between empathy, schizotypy, and visuospatial transformation ability.

Main Methods:

  • 32 participants completed visuospatial perspective-taking and mental letter rotation tasks.
  • Empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index) and schizotypy (Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire) were self-reported.
  • Response times and accuracy were analyzed against empathy and schizotypy measures.

Main Results:

  • Greater cognitive and affective empathy correlated with reduced negative schizotypy.
  • Improved perspective-taking accuracy linked to higher cognitive empathy (women) and positive schizotypy (all).
  • Faster mental rotation associated with reduced cognitive empathy and increased negative schizotypy (women).

Conclusions:

  • Findings partially support links between visuospatial ability, empathy, and schizotypy.
  • Suggests a connection between internal spatial manipulations and real-world interactions.