Adopting the Spatial Perspective of an Avatar

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Jochen Müsseler
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 356807975

If an actor takes the allocentric perspective of an avatar, spatial dissociations arise between the perspective of the actor and the perspective of the avatar. A modification of well-known spatial cognitive phenomena is predicted to the extent with which the actor identifies herself/himself with the avatar. The present project aims at identifying the conditions in which an actor adopts the avatar's perspective and gathers objective performance measures with various phenomena of spatial compatibility, among them the Simon effect and the SNARC effect (the spatial-numerical association of response codes).

• DFG Programme: Research Grants