Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking

Steven Samuel; Thorsten M Erle; Louise P Kirsch; Andrew Surtees; Ian Apperly; Henryk Bukowski; Malika Auvray; Caroline Catmur; Klaus Kessler; Francois Quesque

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105787

Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking

Cognition. 2024 Jun:247:105787. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105787. Epub 2024 Apr 6.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London, U.K. Electronic address: steven.samuel@city.ac.uk.
² Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
³ Université Paris Cité, INCC UMR 8002, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France.
⁴ Centre for Developmental Science, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK; Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Centre for Developmental Science, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
⁶ Institute of Psychological Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
⁷ Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Paris, France.
⁸ Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁹ School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁰ Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon CRNL, U1028, UMR5292, Trajectoires, F-69500 Bron, France; Centre Ressource de Réhabilitation Psychosociale, CH Le Vinatier, Lyon, France.

PMID: 38583320
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105787

Abstract

What would a theory of visuospatial perspective taking (VSPT) look like? Here, ten researchers in the field, many with different theoretical viewpoints and empirical approaches, present their consensus on the three big questions we need to answer in order to bring this theory (or these theories) closer.

Keywords: Perspective taking; Social cognition; Spatial perspective; Visual perspective; Visuospatial perspective taking.