Empathic and non-empathic routes to visuospatial perspective-taking

► Does strategy modulate visuospatial perspective-taking? ► Participants undertook both a perspective taking task and a measure of trait empathy. ► Empathy predicted performance for those performing imagined self-rotations. ► For those adopting an alternative strategy, performance was unrelated to empathy. ► Two dissociable perspective-taking routes occur in the own body transformation task.