Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

How do we construct abstract ideas like justice, mathematics, or time-travel? In this paper we
investigate whether mental representations that result from physical experience underlie …

How do people think about time? Here we describe representations of time in Pormpuraaw,
a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Pormpuraawans' representations of time differ …

Across cultures people construct spatial representations of time. However, the particular
spatial layouts created to represent time may differ across cultures. This paper examines …

Time is a fundamental domain of experience. In this paper we ask whether aspects of
language and culture affect how people think about this domain. Specifically, we consider …

Do English speakers think about time the way they talk about it? In spoken English, time
appears to flow along the sagittal axis (front/back): the future is ahead and the past is behind …

Everyday linguistic expressions in many languages suggest that back and front space is
projected onto temporal concepts of past and future (as in the sentence we are years ahead …

When speaking and reasoning about time, people around the world tend to do so with
vocabulary and concepts borrowed from the domain of space. This raises the question of …

In this paper we examine how English and Mandarin speakers think about time, and we test
how the patterns of thinking in the two groups relate to patterns in linguistic and cultural …