Jichi Medical University.
Institute for Developmental Research.
Child Dev. 2020 Jan;91(1):214-235. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13172. Epub 2018 Nov 8.
This study examined developmental changes in Level-2 visual perspective taking (VPT2) in 90 children aged 4-12 years and tested the role of their ability to mentally simulate changes to their bodily locations (self-motion imagery; SMI). Performance of a mental toy rotation task and a self-motion (SM) task (changing location of children) was superior to that of VPT2 and SMI tasks. Task performance of SMI was better than that of VPT2 before 10;0 (years;months). Furthermore, egocentric responses in VPT2 and SMI tasks were significantly more frequent than those in the mental rotation and SM tasks before 10;3. These findings suggest the involvement of embodied cognitive processes in perspective taking and the advantage of utilizing bodily information by age 10.
本研究考察了 90 名 4-12 岁儿童的二级视觉透视（VPT2）发展变化，并测试了他们模拟身体位置变化的能力（自我运动想象；SMI）的作用。心理玩具旋转任务和自我运动（SM）任务（改变儿童的位置）的表现优于 VPT2 和 SMI 任务。在 10 岁零 0 个月之前，SMI 的任务表现优于 VPT2。此外，在 10 岁零 3 个月之前，VPT2 和 SMI 任务中的自我中心反应比心理旋转和 SM 任务中的更频繁。这些发现表明，在透视中涉及具身认知过程，并且到 10 岁时利用身体信息具有优势。
