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Visual Thinking and Spatial Cognition with Barbara Tversky

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The X-Axis of Time

When you start to see people use the positive and negative forms, you can start to be like, oh, wow, this is. It's as if we were going on a timeline or that we were on a timeline and things were coming to us. And then similarly, for me, it's been helpful to your explanation there. I feel like for me, the x-axis is so much time. Is that, what do you think about that? Yeah, there's been a lot of work on that. Time seems to be horizontal. We're using spatial ways to talk about time in many languages.

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