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Prior research has primarily focused on mental\u2010body transformation in visual\u2010spatial perspective taking (VSPT), yet the subsequent visual processing under the adopted perspective has been less explored. Addressing this gap, our study investigated mental representation of the visual scene as a direct outcome of perceiving from another's viewpoint. Using modified VSPT tasks, we paired avatar\u2010perspective trials with self\u2010perspective trials to create opportunities for observing priming effects resulting from potential mental representations formed under the avatar's perspective. We hypothesized that if individuals form embodied representations of visual scenes while explicitly processing stimuli from the avatar's viewpoint, these representations should be stored in memory, and elicit priming effects when later encountering similar scenes from their own perspective. 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