Empathic and non-empathic routes to visuospatial perspective-taking

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 494-500

  Gronholm, Petra C ^a   Flynn, Maria ^a   Edmonds, Caroline J ^b   Gardner, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Empathy; Own body transformation; Perspective taking; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857501388     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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