Constructing mental time without visual experience.

Trends Cogn Sci

Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Published: August 2015

Across many cultures, people create spatial representations of time. The direction of mental timelines often follows the direction of writing in a person's language. A new study demonstrates that blind participants (who read with their hands) also show mental timelines that follow reading direction.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.06.011DOI Listing

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