Role of the Embodied Cognition Process in Perspective ‐Taking Ability During Childhood

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) wa s 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 i nvolvement of embodied cognitive processes in perspective taking and the advantage of utilizing bodily information by age 10.
Source: Child Development - Category: Child Development Authors: Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research