Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time
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Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time
What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to bottom. But in Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then right to left. Because being a fluent reader-writer entails thousands of hours of experience with eye and hand mo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00109