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    "title": "Spatial Construals of Time... Travel",
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    "abstract": "From H.G. Wells' The Time Machine to the recent Hollywood blockbuster Arrival, the notion of time-travel is a firmly established narrative trope. Yet tales of travel back and forth through time are essentially absent before the mid-1800s. This invites the question: How do people make sense of time-travel, and how does it build on the more basic building-blocks of our conception of time itself? Here, we investigate lay conceptions of time-travel using a gesture elicitation paradigm. Participants watched brief videos of time-travel stories and then recounted the plots. Combining qualitative analysis and machine learning extraction of co-speech gesture trajectories, we describe how participants' construals of time-travel cobble together more basic spatial construals time (e.g., length-duration; past-left vs. future-right), combined to create layered, ad-hoc, flexible representations of time. We discuss implications for how spatial metaphor can offer a foundation for more complex, elaborated forms of reasoning and understanding.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Cognition of Time; Embodied Cognition; Discourse Analysis; Gesture analysis"
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            "first_name": "Shervin",
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            "last_name": "Nosrati",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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        {
            "first_name": "Leo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Niehorster-Cook",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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            "first_name": "Tyler",
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            "last_name": "Marghetis",
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            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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