Submentalizing or mentalizing in a Level 1 perspective-taking task: A cloak and goggles test.

ABSTRACT: It has been proposed that humans possess an automatic system to represent mental states ('implicit mentalizing'). The existence of an implicit mentalizing system has generated considerable debate however, centered on the ability of various experimental paradigms to demonstrate unambiguously such mentalizing. Evidence for implicit mentalizing has previously been provided by the 'dot perspective task,' where participants are slower to verify the number of dots they can see when an avatar can see a different number of dots. However, recent evidence challenged a mentalizing interpretation of this effect by showing it was unaltered when the avatar was replaced with an inanimate arrow stimulus. Here we present an extension of the dot perspective task using an invisibility cloaking device to rend

SUBMITTER: Conway JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5327864 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature