Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of
perspective‐taking in communication, suggesting that perspective‐taking may be relatively …

Research on spatial perspective-taking often focuses on the cognitive processes of isolated
individuals as they adopt or maintain imagined perspectives. Collaborative studies of spatial …

We investigate partner effects on spatial perspective taking behavior in listeners, comparing
behavior with a human versus a computer partner (Experiments 1 and 2), and with computer …

During everyday social interactions, we typically anticipate (or explain) others' behaviour
according to their current mental states (eg their knowledge, beliefs and intentions). To date …

During conversation, interlocutors build on the set of shared beliefs known as common
ground. Although there is general agreement that interlocutors maintain representations of …

We explored perspective-taking behavior in a visuospatial mental rotation task that requires
listeners to adopt an egocentric or “other-centric” frame of reference. In the current task …

When people interpret language, they can reduce the ambiguity of linguistic expressions by
using information about perspective: the speaker's, their own, or a shared perspective. In …

Speakers can describe the locations of objects from their own perspective (“on my left” or “on
the left”), their addressee's (“on your right” or “on the right”), or some perspective that avoids …

The goal of this paper is twofold. The overarching aim is to address the issue of egocentrism
and to argue that conversational participants are generally not egocentric. However, it also …

Abstract Language use in conversation is fundamentally incremental, and is guided by the
representations that interlocutors maintain of each other's knowledge and beliefs. While …