Taking a Third-Person Perspective Requires Inhibitory Control: Evidence From a Developmental Negative Priming Study.
To determine whether the growing ability to take a third-person perspective (3PP) is explained in part by the growing ability to inhibit a first-person perspective (1PP), 10-year-old children (n = 49) and 22-year-old adults (n = 52) performed a negative priming adaptation of the own body transformation task. Both children and adults were less efficient in adopting a 1PP after they adopted a 3PP-with a smaller amplitude of the negative priming effect with older age-and adults' and children's performances in the own body transformation task were predicted in part by their Stroop interference scores. These results suggest that the growing efficiency to adopt a 3PP is rooted in part in the growing efficiency to inhibit the 1PP.
LaPsyDÉ, University Paris Descartes and University of Caen Basse-Normandie.|Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California.
Ania
A
Aïte
Collège de France.
Alain
A
Berthoz
LaPsyDÉ, University Paris Descartes and University of Caen Basse-Normandie.
Julie
J
Vidal
LaPsyDÉ, University Paris Descartes and University of Caen Basse-Normandie.
Margot
M
Roëll
Collège de France.
Mohamed
M
Zaoui
LaPsyDÉ, University Paris Descartes and University of Caen Basse-Normandie.|Institut Universitaire de France.
Olivier
O
Houdé
LaPsyDÉ, University Paris Descartes and University of Caen Basse-Normandie.
Grégoire
G
Borst
D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult