Is implicit Level-2 visual perspective-taking embodied? Spontaneous perceptual simulation of others' perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction.

ABSTRACT: Visual perspective taking may rely on the ability to mentally rotate one's own body into that of another. Here, we test whether participants' ability to make active body movements plays a causal role in visual perspective taking. We utilised our recent task that measures whether participants spontaneously represent another's visual perspective in a (quasi-)perceptual format that can drive own perceptual decision making. Participants reported whether alphanumeric characters, presented in different orientations, are shown in their normal or mirror-inverted form (e.g., "R" vs. "Я"). Between trials, we manipulated whether another person was sitting either left or right of the character and whether participants' movement was restricted with a chinrest or whether they could move freely. As in ou

SUBMITTER: Ward E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9131407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature