Perspective taking and memory for self- and town-related information in male adolescents and young adults

Adolescence is a sensitive period for categorical self-concept development, which affects the ability to take others’ perspectives, might differ from one’s own, and how self-related information memorized. Little known about whether these two processes are related in adolescence. The current study recruited 97 male participants aged 11–35 years. Using self-referential memory task, we found that younger were less prone recognize previously seen town-related adjectives, compared adjectives. However, this age-related reduction recognition bias was unrelated accurate performance. Director task assess perspective taking, an decrease egocentric biases taking adolescence early adulthood (i.e., abilities improved with age). there no evidence related. Overall, our findings suggest adolescents display parallel but independent changes taking.