Both the domain-general and the mentalising processes affect visual perspective taking.

ABSTRACT: People's attention cannot help being affected by what others are looking at. The dot-perspective task has been often employed to investigate this visual attentional shift. In this task, participants are presented with virtual scenes with a cue facing some targets and must judge how many targets are visible from their own or the cue perspective. Typically, this task shows an interference pattern: Participants record slower reaction times (RTs) and more errors when the cue is facing away from the targets. Interestingly, this occurs also when participants take their own perspective. Two accounts contend the explanation of this interference. The mentalising account focuses on the social relevance of the cue, while the domain-general account focuses on the directional features of the cue. To in

SUBMITTER: Pesimena G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936435 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature