TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Perspective taking promotes action understanding and learning
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Lozano, Sandra C.
A1  - Hard, Bridgette Martin
A1  - Tversky, Barbara
SP  - 1405
EP  - 1421
VL  - 32
IS  - 6
N2  - People often learn actions by watching others. The authors propose and test the hypothesis that perspective taking promotes encoding a hierarchical representation of an actor's goals and subgoals-a key process for observational learning. Observers segmented videos of an object assembly task into coarse and fine action units. They described what happened in each unit from either the actor's, their own, or another observer's perspective and later performed the assembly task themselves. Participants who described the task from the actor's perspective encoded actions more hierarchically during observation and learned the task better.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.6.1405
ID  - ref1
ER  -