Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2009 Dec;16(6):1089-93. doi: 10.3758/PBR.16.6.1089.
We tested whether processes that evoke agency interpretations and mental state attributions also lead to adoption of the actor's visuospatial perspective by the observer. Agency and mental state interpretations were manipulated by showing different film clips involving two triangles (the Frith-Happé animations). Participants made speeded spatial decisions while watching these films. The responses in the spatial task could be either the same or different when given from the perspective of the participant versus the perspective of one of the triangles. Reaction times were longer when the perspectives of the participants and triangles differed than when they were the same. This effect increased as the need to invoke agency interpretations in order to understand the films increased, and it increased for those films that had previously been shown to evoke mental state attributions. This demonstrates that processing of an agent's behavior co-occurs with perspective adoption, even in the case in which triangles are the actors.
我们测试了唤起主体解释和心理状态归因的过程是否也会导致观察者采用行为者的空间视角。通过展示涉及两个三角形的不同电影片段（Frith-Happé 动画）来操纵主体和心理状态的解释。参与者在观看这些电影时进行快速的空间决策。参与者和三角形的视角相同时与不同时，空间任务的反应时间有所不同。当参与者和三角形的视角不同时，反应时间会更长。这种效应随着理解电影时需要唤起主体解释的程度而增加，并且对于之前被证明可以唤起心理状态归因的电影来说，这种效应也会增加。这表明，即使三角形是行为者，对行为者行为的处理也会与视角的采用同时发生。
