Mirror Reading Can Reverse the Flow of Time.

How does culture shape our concepts? Across many cultures, people conceptualize time as if it flows along a horizontal timeline, but the direction of this implicit timeline is culture specific: Later times are on the right in some cultures but on the left in others. Here we investigated whether expe...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 143; no. 2; pp. 473 - 480
Main Authors:	Casasanto, Daniel, Bottini, Roberto
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Apr2014
Subjects:	Metaphor Mirror-writing Orthography & spelling Representation (Philosophy) Analytic mappings Spacetime
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost