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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Schizophrenia is associated with altered spontaneous perspective-taking.
  • Confounding factors make it difficult to isolate schizophrenia's effects.
  • Investigating schizotypy in nonclinical populations offers insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between spontaneous perspective-taking and schizotypy in a nonclinical sample.
  • To validate an online visual perspective-taking task.

Main Methods:

  • Adults completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ-BRU).
  • Participants performed an online visual perspective-taking task involving self and avatar perspectives.
  • Response times were measured for judgments from own and avatar perspectives.

Main Results:

  • The online perspective-taking task successfully demonstrated spontaneous perspective-taking via response time differences.
  • Schizotypy scores did not predict the magnitude of spontaneous perspective-taking effects.
  • Implicit mentalizing was not affected by nonclinical schizotypy traits.

Conclusions:

  • Spontaneous perspective-taking, or implicit mentalizing, is not influenced by nonclinical schizotypy.
  • Altered spontaneous perspective-taking in schizophrenia may stem from general neurocognitive impairments.
  • Cognitive control and attention processes are key to understanding perspective selection and calculation in mentalizing.