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    "pk": 25390,
    "title": "Do potential past and future events activate the Lateral Mental Timeline?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Current evidence provides support for the idea that time is\nmentally represented by spatial means, as a lateral mental time\nline. However, available studies have tested only factual events,\ni.e., those which have occurred in the past or will occur in the\nfuture. In the present study we tested whether past and future\npotential events are also represented along the lateral mental\ntimeline. In Experiment 1 participants categorized the temporal\nreference (past or future) of either factual or potential events and\nresponded by means of a lateralized (left or right) keypress.\nFactual events showed a space-time congruency effect that\nreplicated prior findings: participants were faster to categorize\npast events with the left hand and future events with the right\nhand than when using the opposite mapping. More importantly,\nthis also ocurred for potential events. Experiment 2 replicated\nthis finding using blocks comprising only potential events. In\norder to assess the degree of automaticity of the activation of the\nmental timeline in these two kinds of events, Experiment 3 asked\nparticipants to judge whether the expressions referred to factual\nor potential events. In this case, there was no space-time\ncongruency effect, showing that the lateral timeline is active\nonly when relevant to the task. Moreover, participants were\nfaster to categorize potential events with the left hand and factual\nevents with the right hand than when using the opposite\nmapping, suggesting for the first time a link between the mental\nrepresentations of space and potentiality.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Mental timeline; time; space; potentiality; factuality"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rx9x0qm",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Roberto",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Aguirre",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Centre of Basic Research in Psychology. Av",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Julio",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Santiago",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center. University of Granada",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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