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How Culture Affects Mental Representations of Diagonal Time Lines: effect of the dominant lateral and Vertical MTLs

Authors
Yayun Zheng1, *, Yunfan Jing2, Yixin Miao3, Jiayao Liang4
1Department of teacher education, Dali University, Dali, 671003, China
2senior high school, Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, Shanghai, 201108, China
3sophmore high shool, The Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts, 02493, USA
4College of Liberal Arts&Sciences, university of illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, 61820, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: yulia.yayunzheng@gmail.com
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Yayun Zheng
Available Online 29 October 2023.
DOI
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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Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Culture and Social Services (PCSS 2023)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 October 2023
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978-2-38476-130-2
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_17How to use a DOI?
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