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 …

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus, millions of Americans fail to view climate
change as a pressing threat. How can we address this disconnect between science and …

Deictic time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” pose a challenge to children not only
because they are abstract, and label periods in time, but also because their denotations vary …

Several theoretical and empirical work posit the existence of a common magnitude system in
the brain. Such a proposal implies that manipulating stimuli in one magnitude dimension (eg …

We reviewed literature to understand when a spatial map for time is available in the brain.
We carefully defined the concepts of metrical map of time and of conceptual representation …

The size congruity effect refers to the interaction between numerical magnitude and physical
digit size in a symbolic comparison task. Though this effect is well established in the typical 2 …

The study assessed whether the auditory reference provided by a music scale could
improve spatial exploration of a standard musical instrument keyboard in right‐brain …

Physical size modulates the efficiency of digit comparison, depending on whether the
relation of numerical magnitude and physical size is congruent or incongruent (Besner & …

Time is grounded in various ways, and previous studies point to a “mental time line” with
past associated with the left, and future with the right side. In this study, we investigated …

A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual
representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific …