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Nunez, Rafael; Cooperrider, Kensy; Doan, D.; Wassmann, Jurg – Cognition, 2012
Time, an everyday yet fundamentally abstract domain, is conceptualized in terms of space throughout the world's cultures. Linguists and psychologists have presented evidence of a widespread pattern in which deictic time--past, present, and future--is construed along the front/back axis, a construal that is "linear" and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Topography, Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability