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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Spatial Cognition

Background:

  • The directionality of the mental vertical timeline (bottom-to-top vs. top-to-bottom) remains inconclusive.
  • Visuospatial processing of temporal stimuli may influence time representation along vertical space.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if and how visuospatial processing modulates the vertical timeline.
  • To examine the influence of spatial location and presentation direction on temporal categorization.

Main Methods:

  • An online temporal categorization task was employed with 150 Italian university students.
  • Participants responded to past/future words using up/down arrow keys.
  • Experiments varied word location (top, middle, bottom) and stimulus presentation direction (upward/downward).

Main Results:

  • Response times indicated a consistent association: past with down arrows, future with up arrows.
  • This association held true regardless of word spatial location or stimulus presentation direction.
  • Results suggest visuospatial processing does not influence the mental timeline's direction.

Conclusions:

  • The mental timeline's direction is not modulated by visuospatial processing.
  • Daily experiences with verticality (e.g., elevators, stairs) may explain the prevalent bottom-to-top time representation.
  • Further research could explore other factors influencing mental time representation.