Kessler Klaus, Thomson Lindsey Anne
Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, UK.
Cognition. 2010 Jan;114(1):72-88. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.015. Epub 2009 Sep 26.
Humans are able to mentally adopt the spatial perspective of others and understand the world from their point of view. We propose that spatial perspective taking (SPT) could have developed from the physical alignment of perspectives. This would support the notion that others have put forward claiming that SPT is an embodied cognitive process. We investigated this issue by contrasting several accounts in terms of the assumed processes and the nature of the embodiment. In a series of four experiments we found substantial evidence that the transformations during SPT comprise large parts of the body schema, which we did not observe for object rotation. We further conclude that the embodiment of SPT is best conceptualised as the self-initiated emulation of a body movement, supporting the notion of endogenous motoric embodiment. Overall our results are much more in agreement with an 'embodied' transformation account than with the notion of sensorimotor interference. Finally we discuss our findings in terms of SPT as a possible evolutionary stepping stone towards more complex alignments of socio-cognitive perspectives.
人类能够在心理上采纳他人的空间视角，并从他们的观点来理解世界。我们提出，空间视角采择（SPT）可能是从视角的身体对齐发展而来的。这将支持其他人提出的观点，即认为SPT是一种具身认知过程。我们通过对比几种关于假定过程和具身性质的解释来研究这个问题。在一系列四个实验中，我们发现了大量证据表明，SPT过程中的转换包含了身体图式的很大一部分，而在物体旋转中我们并未观察到这一点。我们进一步得出结论，SPT的具身化最好被概念化为身体运动的自我启动模拟，这支持了内源性运动具身化的观点。总体而言，我们的结果与“具身”转换解释的一致性要远高于感觉运动干扰的概念。最后，我们从SPT的角度讨论我们的发现，认为它可能是朝着更复杂的社会认知视角对齐发展的一个进化跳板。
