Perspective Taking: Building a neurocognitive framework for integrating the "social" and the "spatial"

• Main Author: Klaus Kessler (auth)
• Other Authors: Sarah H. Creem-Regehr (auth), Antonia Hamilton (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; social cognition; Cognitive neuroscience; perspective taking; social neuroscience; spatial cognition; spatial perspective; visual perspective
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Background: Interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one's own body and the other's body and viewpoint. In the past, social cognition has focused largely on belief reasoning, which is abstracted away from spatial and bodily representations, while there is a strong tradit...