scholarly journals Can co-speech gestures alone carry the mental time line?

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1768-1781
Author(s):  
Bodo Winter ◽  
Sarah E. Duffy
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Author(s):  
Marc Ouellet ◽  
Julio Santiago ◽  
Ziv Israeli ◽  
Shai Gabay

Spanish and English speakers tend to conceptualize time as running from left to right along a mental line. Previous research suggests that this representational strategy arises from the participants’ exposure to a left-to-right writing system. However, direct evidence supporting this assertion suffers from several limitations and relies only on the visual modality. This study subjected to a direct test the reading hypothesis using an auditory task. Participants from two groups (Spanish and Hebrew) differing in the directionality of their orthographic system had to discriminate temporal reference (past or future) of verbs and adverbs (referring to either past or future) auditorily presented to either the left or right ear by pressing a left or a right key. Spanish participants were faster responding to past words with the left hand and to future words with the right hand, whereas Hebrew participants showed the opposite pattern. Our results demonstrate that the left-right mapping of time is not restricted to the visual modality and that the direction of reading accounts for the preferred directionality of the mental time line. These results are discussed in the context of a possible mechanism underlying the effects of reading direction on highly abstract conceptual representations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 838-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Grazia Di Bono ◽  
Marco Casarotti ◽  
Konstantinos Priftis ◽  
Lucia Gava ◽  
Carlo Umiltà ◽  
...  
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NeuroImage ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 1173-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Oliveri ◽  
Giacomo Koch ◽  
Silvia Salerno ◽  
Sara Torriero ◽  
Emanuele Lo Gerfo ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle DeNigris ◽  
Patricia J. Brooks

Abstract This commentary relates Hoerl & McCormack's dual systems perspective to models of cognitive development emphasizing representational redescription and the role of culturally constructed tools, including language, in providing flexible formats for thinking. We describe developmental processes that enable children to construct a mental time line, situate themselves in time, and overcome the primacy of the here and now.


2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 2257-2273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Bonato ◽  
Marco Zorzi ◽  
Carlo Umiltà
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. e0130465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Droit-Volet ◽  
Jennifer Coull
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2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Rolke ◽  
Susana Ruiz Fernández ◽  
Mareike Schmid ◽  
Matthias Walker ◽  
Martin Lachmair ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Anelli ◽  
Gregory Peters-Founshtein ◽  
Yaen Shreibman ◽  
Elior Moreh ◽  
Chiara Forlani ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianfeng Ding ◽  
Ning Feng ◽  
Xiaorong Cheng ◽  
Huashan Liu ◽  
Zhao Fan
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