Visuospatial perspective-taking of a protagonist during narrative comprehension: the effects of task load and individual differences in visuospatial working memory.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study examined whether visuospatial perspective uses the character perspective during narrative comprehension.

Method

Participants read narrative stimuli depicting the spatial positional relationships between characters and objects and judged whether the objects were on the left or right from the character's perspective. We manipulated whether the spatial positional relationships between characters depicted in the narrative stimuli resulted in a visuospatial perspective. We hypothesized that the high-load perspective-taking condition would indicate longer reaction times compared to the low-load perspective-taking condition, as shifting perspectives between characters in the high-load condition require more time for visuospatial perspective-taking.

Result

SUBMITTER: Hosokawa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199894 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature