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Direct linkCasasanto, Daniel; Boroditsky, Lera – Cognition, 2008
How do we construct abstract ideas like justice, mathematics, or time-travel? In this paper we investigate whether mental representations that result from physical experience underlie people's more abstract mental representations, using the domains of space and time as a testbed. People often talk about time using spatial language (e.g., a "long"…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Evaluative Thinking, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes
