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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Spatial cognition
  • Embodied cognition

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  • Humans frequently adopt the perspective of others.
  • The cognitive mechanisms underlying perspective-taking are not fully understood.

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  • To investigate how people mentally reorient to adopt an opposing spatial perspective.
  • To determine the conditions under which perspective-taking occurs.

Main Methods:

  • A spatial perspective-taking task was employed.
  • Participants identified objects from their own and an imagined other's viewpoint.
  • Reaction times and accuracy were measured.

Main Results:

  • Self-perspective judgments showed faster responses for objects on the right and closer to the body.
  • Adopting another's perspective reversed these egocentric biases.
  • This remapping occurred even with an empty chair, but not when the viewpoint was blocked.

Conclusions:

  • Perspective-taking involves mentally remapping spatial relations relative to another's position.
  • Imagination can override perceptual biases, simulating embodiment in a different location.
  • Physical feasibility and access to the viewpoint are crucial for this egocentric remapping.