{"pk":29640,"title":"Imitation inhibition training enhances perspective taking in preschoolers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Adults (Keysar et al, 2000) and children (Epley et al, 2004) sometimes commit egocentric errors when interpreting otherscommunication, if the self-perspective differs from the speakers perspective. Training imitation inhibition reduces egocen-tric error in adults (Santiesteban et al., 2011), presumably because it makes salient the distinction between self and other.As managing the self-other perspective difference may undergo developmental changes during preschool years (South-gate, in press), we tested whether a social imitation inhibition training may reduce egocentric mistakes in 3-6-year-oldchildren. Results with n=47 (of n=50 preregistered) children show that the imitation inhibition group selected the object towhich the speaker referred more often than children in a control condition (F(1,35)=5.346, p=.026). However, there wasan interaction with age (F(2,35)=3.805, p=.032): only 4-year-olds, but neither 3- nor 6-year-olds, were more accurate inthe inhibition group. Childrens reaction times and hesitation will be analyzed on the final sample.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rf569cn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Dora","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kampis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Copenhagen","department":""},{"first_name":"Helle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Duplessy","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Copenhagen","department":""},{"first_name":"Victoria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Southgate","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Copenhagen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29640/galley/19498/download/"}]}