Back to the future? The role of temporal focus for mapping time onto space.
Do we conceptualise the future as being behind us or in front of us? Although this question has traditionally been investigated through the lens of spatiotemporal metaphors, new impetus was recently provided by the Temporal-Focus Hypothesis. This hypothesis holds that the mapping of temporal concept...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 73; no. 2; pp. 174 - 183 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2020
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