The ego-moving perspective and the time-moving perspective are the two common
metaphors used to spatially represent time. The former describes time as a stationary object …

This study investigates whether there is a relation between the semantics of linguistic
expressions that indicate temporal distance and the spatial properties of their co-speech …

本文基于Caruso 等人的研究发现人们对相同距离的未来时间的感知比过去的更短,
即时间多普勒效应. 通过四个实验逐步检验时间多普勒效应并考察其边界问题. 实验1 在Caruso …

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hearn, JH, Finlay, KA and Fine, PA
(2016), The devil in the Page 1 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article …

Rising extremism and polarization threaten democratic institutions worldwide. As opposing
factions become more extreme in their opinions, polarization increases—the chasm widens …

Equally as important as growing the body of human knowledge through scientific
discoveries and analysis is relaying this information to the general public in a digestible …

In this work, we build models to detect the duration of verbs. We first propose an automatic
annotation method to create a dataset for verb duration detection. We then attempt to …

It'sa bird! It'sa plane! It's superman!? Sometimes there are things in our world that are
ambiguous. An ambiguous object, for the purposes of this thesis is any object that has more …

A saying goes that “to know another language is to possess a second soul.” Passionate
about languages, translation and world cultures, the author is always on the way to learn …

Although cultural thought processes are increasingly compatible with the “flattening” of the
globe (Friedman 2006), current research in anthropology and cognitive science shows that …