title: What's so difficult with adopting imagined perspectives?
abstract: Research on spatial cognition suggests that transformation processes and/or spatial conflicts may influence performance on mental perspective-taking tasks. However, conflicting findings have complicated our understanding about the processes involved in perspective-taking, particularly those giving rise to angular disparity effects, whereby performance worsens as the imagined perspective adopted deviates from one's actual perspective. Based on data from experiments involving mental perspective-taking in immediate and remote spatial layouts, we propose here a novel account for the difficulty with perspective-taking. According to this account, the main difficulty lies in maintaining an imagined perspective in working memory, especially in the presence of salient sensorimotor information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus, mariosav@ucy.ac.cy.
authors.forename: Marios N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Avraamides
authors.forename: Adamantini
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hatzipanayioti
authors.forename: Alexia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galati
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*