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DRAW a line across a page, then write on it what you had for dinner yesterday and what you plan to eat tomorrow. If you are a native English speaker, or hail from pretty much any European country, you no doubt wrote last night's meal to the left of tomorrow night's. That's because we construct mental timelines to represent and reason about time, and most people in the West think of the past as on the left, and the future as on the right.
Arnaud Saj at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues wondered whether the ability to conjure up a mental timeline is a necessary part of reasoning about events in time.
在紙上畫一條線，然后在上面寫上你昨天晚飯吃了什么以及你明天打算吃什么。如果你是一個(gè)母語(yǔ)為英語(yǔ)的人，或是來(lái)自任何一個(gè)歐洲國(guó)家的人，毫無(wú)疑問你會(huì)在左側(cè)寫上昨天晚餐吃得什么，右側(cè)寫上明天打算吃什么。這一切和我們構(gòu)建時(shí)間軸來(lái)表達(dá)和思考時(shí)間有關(guān)。大部分西方人會(huì)用左側(cè)表示過去，而用右側(cè)表示將來(lái)。
瑞士日內(nèi)瓦大學(xué)的阿爾諾·薩杰和他的同事們想要進(jìn)行相關(guān)研究，弄清楚在腦海里設(shè)想時(shí)間軸是否是推斷時(shí)間發(fā)生先后的必要步驟。
DRAW a line across a page, then write on it what you had for dinner yesterday and what you plan to eat tomorrow. If you are a native English speaker, or hail from pretty much any European country, you no doubt wrote last night's meal to the left of tomorrow night's. That's because we construct mental timelines to represent and reason about time, and most people in the West think of the past as on the left, and the future as on the right.
Arnaud Saj at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues wondered whether the ability to conjure up a mental timeline is a necessary part of reasoning about events in time.
在紙上畫一條線，然后在上面寫上你昨天晚飯吃了什么以及你明天打算吃什么。如果你是一個(gè)母語(yǔ)為英語(yǔ)的人，或是來(lái)自任何一個(gè)歐洲國(guó)家的人，毫無(wú)疑問你會(huì)在左側(cè)寫上昨天晚餐吃得什么，右側(cè)寫上明天打算吃什么。這一切和我們構(gòu)建時(shí)間軸來(lái)表達(dá)和思考時(shí)間有關(guān)。大部分西方人會(huì)用左側(cè)表示過去，而用右側(cè)表示將來(lái)。
瑞士日內(nèi)瓦大學(xué)的阿爾諾·薩杰和他的同事們想要進(jìn)行相關(guān)研究，弄清楚在腦海里設(shè)想時(shí)間軸是否是推斷時(shí)間發(fā)生先后的必要步驟。