Teleporting into walls? The irrelevance of the physical world in embodied perspective-taking.

Steven Samuel, Sarah Salo, Tiia Ladvelin, Geoff G Cole, Madeline J Eacott

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Article in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Embodied Cross-Modal Interactions Based on an Altercentric Reference Frame.Brain sciences · 2024
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Steven SamuelSchool of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK. samuel@plymouth.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-7427

Sarah SaloSchool of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.

Tiia LadvelinDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Geoff G ColeDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Madeline J EacottDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

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Abstract

Embodied theories of Level 2 visual perspective-taking usually assume that we imagine ourselves in other real-world locations to take perspectives. We tested this assertion by giving participants an embodied perspective-taking task in which they were instructed to make manual responses based on imagined perspectives. Importantly, on half of the trials, the location of the alternative perspective was not physically possible (i.e., blocked with a wall). Across two experiments, results showed that participants performed just as well for the physically impossible perspectives as for accessible ones. We interpret these data as evidence that embodied perspective-taking is agnostic to local physical features of our environment.

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Space PerceptionHumansEmbodied cognitionLevel 2 perspective-takingMental rotationVisual perspective-taking

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PMID36478560

DOI10.3758/s13423-022-02070-8

PMCPMC10264460

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