With the past behind and the future ahead: Back-to-front representation of past and future sentences

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 483-495

  Ulrich, Rolf ^a   Eikmeier, Verena ^a   de la Vega, Irmgard ^a   Fernández, Susana Ruiz ^a   Alex Ruf, Simone ^a   Maienborn, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Back frontal timeline; Language comprehension; Mental timeline; Metaphoric mapping; Space time congruency effect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864449829     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0162-4     Document Type: Article

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