Abstract
Perspective taking: building a neurocognitive framework for integrating the "social" and the "spatial".
Highlights
From carrying a table to pointing at the moon, interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one’s own body and the other’s body and viewpoint
Creem-Regehr et al analyze the literature on human judgments of other’s affordances and how this relates to spatial perspective taking, concluding that these are complementary processes that work to inform understanding of another’s behavior (Creem-Regehr et al, 2013)
The impact of perspective taking on observation of other’s pain is examined by Canizales et al, finding both subjective evaluation and neural somatosensory responses are modulated by the perspective taken (Canizales et al, 2013)
Summary
From carrying a table to pointing at the moon, interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one’s own body and the other’s body and viewpoint. Surtees and colleagues reveal that embodied egocentric transformations are used for visual as well as for spatial perspective taking, extending the generality of the embodied processing principle (Surtees et al, 2013). Several of the papers in this research topic have a focus on action systems in perspective taking.
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