# Perspective-Taking and its Foundation in Joint Attention **Opening (not a real abstract):** Unlike any other species, humans can think about perspectives that are not currently their own. They can put themselves in the "mental shoes" of others and imagine how they perceive, think, or feel about an object or event. Perspectivity in its mature, adult form even goes beyond the ability to determine a specific person's point of view at a certain moment in time. It entails the general comprehension that one and the same thing or event can be viewed or construed differently depending on one's standpointwhether this is a visuo-spatial, episternic, conceptual, or affective standpoint (perner, Brandl, and· Garnham, 2003). Fro.m a developmental perspective, the question arises when and how children acquire this knowledge. We offer a new look at the early ontogeny of understanding visual perception and **Authors:** [[Henrike Moll and Andrew N. Meltz'!ff]]