Is mental time embodied interpersonally?

Cognitive Processing
Sven ThönesHeiko Hecht

Abstract

Recent evidence has shown that the mental representation of time is "embodied"-time is expressed via the hands, the eyes, and the whole body. These findings suggest the existence of a manually reflected mental time line running (in Western culture) horizontally from left (past) to right (future) and an ocularly reflected mental time line running from left/down (past) to right/up (future). We addressed the question whether mental time is also reflected interpersonally and investigated whether an avatar's face orientation (left vs. right) would facilitate a subject's temporal processing in relation to the horizontal mental time line. In combination with a left- or right-gazing avatar, we presented a temporal auditory word ("gestern"-yesterday or "morgen"-tomorrow), and our subjects had to manually categorize the word as being either past- or future-related (classic left/right key-press paradigm). The stimulus-response (SR) mapping was either compatible (past word-left hand, future word-right hand) or incompatible (future word-left hand, past word-right hand). Responses were significantly faster in blocks with compatible versus incompatible mapping. Thus, our results provide clear evidence for manually reflected mental time runnin...Continue Reading

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