Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another's Visual Perspective

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Eleanor WardPatric Bach

Abstract

Visual perspective taking (VPT) is a core process of social cognition, providing humans with insights into what the environment looks like from another's point of view [1-4]. While VPT is often described as a quasi-perceptual phenomenon [5, 6], evidence for this proposal has been lacking. Here, we provide direct evidence that another's perspective can "stand in" for one's own sensory input during perceptual decision making. In a variant of the classic mental rotation task, participants judged whether characters presented in different orientations were canonical or mirror inverted. In the absence of another person, we replicate the well-established positive linear relationship between recognition times and angle of orientation such that recognition becomes slower the more an item has to be mentally rotated into its canonical orientation [7]. Importantly, this relationship was disrupted simply by placing another individual in the scene. Items rotated away from the participant were recognized more rapidly the closer they appeared in their canonical orientation, not only to the participant, but also to this other individual, showing that another's visual perspective drives mental rotation and item recognition in a similar way as on...Continue Reading

Citations

Sep 14, 2019·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Geoff G Cole, Abbie C Millett
Jun 5, 2020·Vision·Geoff G ColeMadeline J Eacott
Sep 29, 2020·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Dora Kampis, Victoria Southgate
Dec 16, 2020·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Tian YeAntonia Hamilton
Jan 29, 2021·Cognition·Steven SamuelGeoff G Cole
Jul 1, 2021·Scandinavian Journal of Psychology·Jing ZhaiYanli Huang

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