{"pk":24122,"title":"Spatial Construals of Time... Travel","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Cognition of Time; Embodied Cognition; Discourse Analysis; Gesture analysis"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zv9w0jx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shervin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nosrati","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Leo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Niehorster-Cook","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Tyler","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marghetis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24122/galley/13716/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24122/galley/21564/download/"}]}