Analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara
people indicates a reverse concept of time. Contrary to what had been
thought a cognitive universal among humans - a spatial metaphor for time
that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind - the Amerindian
group from the Andes locates this imaginary abstraction the other way
around: with the past in front of them and the future behind. The study,
published in the current issue of the journal Cognitive Science, was led by
Embodied Cognition Laboratory director
Rafael Núñez
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Multisensory and sensorimotor representations for action in human posterior parietal cortex investigated with fMRI
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