How Culture Affects Mental Representations of Diagonal Time Lines: effect of the dominant lateral and Vertical MTLs
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_17How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Cross-cultural effect; Diagonal MTLs; Mental representation of time; mirror-reverse task
- Abstract
People depict elapsed time on a horizontal or vertical mental timeline (MTL). Yet how cross-cultural diagonal MTLs are formed remains unknown. Because many studies have shown the relevance of horizontal or vertical MTLs to diagonal MTLs, we hypothesized that diagonal mental timelines in each culture are determined by (and are a combination of) the horizontal and vertical MTLs that are dominant in that culture. Also, we believe that we can test whether diagonal MTLs vary in parallel with the mirror image of horizontal and vertical MTLs using a mirror-reverse task applied by previous researchers. We predicted that subjects’ diagonal MTLs should change with the mirror reversal of the target under lateral and vertical triggers. In contrast, subjects should exhibit a top-left/bottom-right MTL (i.e., without the effects of mirror-reading training) regardless of whether they have been trained in standard Mandarin or mirror-reversed Mandarin.
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TY - CONF AU - Yayun Zheng AU - Yunfan Jing AU - Yixin Miao AU - Jiayao Liang PY - 2023 DA - 2023/10/29 TI - How Culture Affects Mental Representations of Diagonal Time Lines: effect of the dominant lateral and Vertical MTLs BT - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Culture and Social Services (PCSS 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 134 EP - 140 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_17 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_17 ID - Zheng2023 ER -