Everyday concepts of duration, of sequence, and of past, present, and future are
fundamental to how humans make sense of experience. In culture after culture, converging …

Abstract Space, time, and number are fundamental to how we act within and reason about
the world. These three experiential domains are systematically intertwined in behavior …

In beginning this chapter we immediately faced a dilemma. There is nothing that can be
called “the concept of function.” The phrase “concept of function,” regardless of its meaning …

A large number of experimental findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology
demonstrated interactions between spatial cognition and numerical cognition. In particular …

What factors influence the ways in which people resolve ambiguity? In English, two
contrasting perspectives are implicit in deictic temporal expressions: the Moving Time …

How do people talk—and potentially think—about abstract concepts? Supported by
abundant linguistic evidence, Conceptual Metaphor Theory posits that people draw upon …

This article discusses perspective and frame of reference in the metaphorical description of
mathematical concepts in terms of motions, gestures, and embodied actions. When a …

This article discusses the cognitive process of transforming one representation of
mathematical entities into another representation. This process, which has been called …

Recent findings in psychology, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience present a challenge to
current amodal theories by suggesting that cognitive states are not disembodied in …

This article discusses two mechanisms through which understanding static mathematical
concepts (basic and more advanced mathematical concepts) in terms of fictive motions or …