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The closing of the theory of mind: A critique of perspective-taking.
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- Patterns of multiple brain network activation in dot perspective task.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- It's Not You, It's Me: A Review of Individual Differences in Visuospatial Perspective Taking.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Review
- Both the domain-general and the mentalising processes affect visual perspective taking.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Gaze cueing, mental States, and the effect of autistic traits.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Mentalizing and self-other distinction in visual perspective taking: the analysis of temporal neural processing using high-density EEG.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Seeing in my way or your way: impact of intelligence, attention, and empathy on brain reactivity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Is implicit Level-2 visual perspective-taking embodied? Spontaneous perceptual simulation of others' perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and is often said to be one of the cornerstones of efficient social interaction. In recent years, a number of authors have suggested that one particular ToM process occurs spontaneously in that it is rapid and outside of conscious control. This work has argued that humans efficiently compute the visual perspective of other individuals. In this article, we present a critique of this notion both on empirical and theoretical grounds. We argue that the experiments and paradigms that purportedly demonstrate spontaneous perspective-taking have not as yet convincingly demonstrated the existence of such a phenomenon. We also suggest that it is not possible to represent the percept of another person, spontaneous or otherwise. Indeed, the perspective-taking field has suggested that humans can represent the visual experience of others. That is, going beyond assuming that we can represent another's viewpoint in anything other than symbolic form. In this sense, the field suffers from the same problem that afflicted the "pictorial" theory in the mental imagery debate. In the last section we present a number of experiments designed to provide a more thorough assessment of whether humans can indeed represent the visual experience of others.
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