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
Katherine DeLong - PhD Defense
Jul 23 -- CSB 180, 11:00am
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Electrophysiological explorations of linguistic pre-activation and its consequences during online sentence processing
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