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. B...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00109/full |