What factors influence the ways in which people resolve ambiguity? In English, two
contrasting perspectives are implicit in deictic temporal expressions: the Moving Time …

Abstract In English, two deictic space‐time metaphors are in common usage: the Moving
Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time …

People use space in a variety of ways to structure their thoughts about time. The present
report focuses on the different ways that space is employed when reasoning about deictic …

The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the
psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the …

While we often talk about time using spatial terms, experimental investigation of space-time
associations has focused primarily on the space in front of the participant. This has had two …

A growing body of literature has established that spatiotemporal metaphoric reasoning
processes can be affected by the active experience of motion (such as actual motion, fictive …

Experimental work has shown that spatial experiences influence spatiotemporal metaphor
use. In these studies, participants are asked a question that yields different responses …

ABSTRACT The Moving Time metaphor and the Moving Ego metaphor are common in
English speakers' conceptualization of time. Previous research has suggested a broad …

Embodied cognition posits that abstract conceptual knowledge such as mental
representations of time and space are at least partially grounded in sensorimotor …

It has long been observed that speakers systematically employ language from concrete and
perceptually rich domains to talk about abstract concepts. One of the paradigm examples of …