Flexible spatial perspective-taking: conversational partners weigh multiple cues in collaborative tasks

摘要: Research on spatial perspective-taking often focuses the cognitive processes of isolated individuals as they adopt or maintain imagined perspectives. Collaborative studies typically examine speakers’ linguistic choices, while overlooking their underlying and representations. We review evidence from two collaborative experiments that contribution social representational cues to perspective choices in both language organization memory. Across experiments, speakers organized memory representations according convergence various cues. When layouts were randomly configured did not afford intrinsic cues, encoded partner’s viewpoint memory, if available, but use it an organizing direction. On other hand, when layout afforded structure, memories person-centered reinforced by layout’s structure. Similarly, descriptions, considered multiple whether available a priori at interaction. They used partner-centered expressions more frequently (e.g., “to your right”) was misaligned small offset coincided with Conversely, egocentric own structure partner computationally difficult, oblique offset. Based these findings we advocate for framework flexible perspective-taking: people weigh (including ones) make attributions about relative difficulty each partner, adapt behavior minimize collective effort. This is specialized reasoning instead emerges same principles memory-depended govern non-spatial tasks.