A Control Perspective on Imaginal Perspective Taking

This contribution presents a computational cognitive model of imaginal perspective taking (IPT). The model is shown to account for major effects observed in IPT as well as concrete human data from an IPT experiment. Model development was based on the observation that control mechanisms play a central role in IPT performance. In taking this approach, model development and the model itself reveal similarities between tasks which so far have been considered only in isolation, suggesting a common basis for these tasks in terms of computational (control) mechanisms.