{"pk":27587,"title":"Agent’s symmetry elicits egocentric transformations for spatial perspective-taking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Spatial perspective-taking is an ability to understand in which direction an object is located relative to an agent (e.g.,another person or a chair). Previous studies showed that left/right judgments prompted an egocentric transformation strategy(i.e., mental rotation of the self) whereas front/behind judgments prompted other strategies (e.g., tracing a line of sight). Toexamine whether the symmetrical shape of an agent could affect the choice of strategies, we used as an agent a cuboid whichhas a prong on one of its sides. We labeled the prong side as the front (Experiment 1) or right (Experiment 2) of the agent,about which participants made left/right and front/behind judgments. The results revealed that egocentric transformations weremore favored for judgments about directions along symmetrical than asymmetrical axes of the agent, regardless of whether thejudgment was about left/right or front/behind. This suggests similar processing underlies left/right and front/behind judgments.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nf4m9jv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hiroyuki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Muto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Osaka University","department":""},{"first_name":"Soyogu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matsushita","name_suffix":"","institution":"Osaka University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kazunori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Morikawa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Osaka University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27587/galley/17223/download/"}]}