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  • The study explores how people visualize the world from different perspectives, proposing two main methods: embodiment, involving self-movement, and array rotation, involving scene movement.
  • When participants attempted to locate a target from an alternate viewpoint, errors typically arose in manual responses that would have been accurate from that new perspective.
  • The findings suggest that taking on another perspective can lead to a temporary shift in how we relate to our surroundings, often undermining our original, egocentric view of the world.

Article Abstract

How do we imagine what the world looks like from another visual perspective? The two most common proposals-embodiment and array rotation-imply that we must briefly imagine either movement of the self (embodiment) or movement of the scene (array rotation). What is not clear is what this process might mean for our real, egocentric perspective of the world. We present a novel task in which participants had to locate a target from an alternative perspective but make a manual response consistent with their own. We found that when errors occurred they were usually manual responses that would have been correct from the computed alternative perspective. This was the case both when participants were instructed to find the target from another perspective and when they were asked to imagine the scene itself rotated. We interpret this as direct evidence that perspective-taking leads to the brief adoption of a computed perspective-a new imagined relationship between ourselves and the scene-to the detriment of our own, egocentric point of view.

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