The term 'timing'is interchangeably used to convey processing of the order or the duration of
events. Yet, whereas temporal order processing means judging when one event happens …

The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary
debates in cognitive (neuro) science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories …

Metaphors and other tropes are commonly thought to reflect asymmetries in concreteness,
with concrete sources being used to talk about relatively more abstract targets. Similarly …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple
semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One …

In Western cultures, small-left and large-right spatial-numerical associations are constantly
found in various simple number processing tasks. It has recently been suggested that spatial …

Time is represented along a horizontal mental line with an association between the past (or
short duration) and left space as well as between the future (or long duration) and right …

The processing of time activates a spatial left-to-right mental timeline, where past events are
“located” to the left and future events to the right. If past and future words activate this mental …

The space–time interaction suggests a left-to-right directionality in the mind's representation
of elapsing time. However, studies showing a possible vertical time representation are …

In previous studies investigating the space–time compatibility effect, the experimental task
always invites explicit spatial or temporal processing or both. In this study, we kept space …

This study investigated the spontaneous co-speech gestures produced by speakers who
were talking about the concepts of addition and subtraction in a television news setting. We …