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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

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  • The human brain conceptualizes time along a spatial left-to-right mental timeline.
  • Past events are mentally located to the left, and future events to the right.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if processing past and future words interferes with hand movements in the opposite direction.
  • To determine if this space-time congruency effect is automatic and independent of temporal priming.

Main Methods:

  • Three visual lexical decision tasks using conjugated verbs and pseudoverbs.
  • Participants responded to word stimuli with lateral hand movements (trackpad/mouse) or static keypresses.
  • Manipulated congruency between grammatical time (past/future) and movement direction.

Main Results:

  • Space-time incongruency significantly increased reaction times, indicating interference.
  • The congruency effect was observed only when responses required lateral movement through space.
  • The effect persisted even without temporal word priming.

Conclusions:

  • Word recognition automatically activates a left-right mental timeline.
  • The concept of time is grounded in spatial movement.
  • Movement plays a crucial role in the cognitive representation of time.