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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Social Cognition

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  • Level 2 visual perspective-taking (VPT) research primarily examines mental rotation.
  • Mechanisms of representing others' visual worlds remain unclear.
  • Previous studies have not fully explored the neural underpinnings of VPT with dynamic stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mechanisms of representing others' visual worlds in level 2 VPT.
  • To explore the aftereffects of adopting another's perspective on self-motion discrimination.
  • To examine the role of individual differences in perspective-taking tendencies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a novel VPT task involving motion stimuli.
  • Measured aftereffects on motion discrimination from the self-perspective.
  • Correlated self-reported perspective-taking tendencies with observed aftereffects.

Main Results:

  • A facilitation aftereffect was observed when participants adopted an avatar's perspective.
  • Perspective-taking tendencies correlated with aftereffects in both instructed and spontaneous VPT.
  • Low perspective-takers showed facilitation, while high perspective-takers exhibited an adaptation aftereffect.

Conclusions:

  • Motion perception from self and other perspectives may share direction-selective neural circuitry.
  • The engagement of this shared circuitry is influenced by individual perspective-taking tendencies.
  • Findings highlight the interplay between social cognition and basic sensory processing.