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    "pk": 25781,
    "title": "Building the mental timeline: Spatial representations of time in preschoolers",
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    "abstract": "When reasoning about sequences of events, English-speaking\nadults often invoke a “mental timeline,” stretching from left\n(past) to right (future). Although the direction of the timeline\nvaries across cultures, linear representations of time are\nargued to be ubiquitous and primitive. On this hypothesis, we\nmight predict that children should spontaneously invoke a\ntimeline when reasoning about time. However, little is known\nabout how the mental timeline develops. Here, we use a\nsticker placement task to test whether 3- to 6-year-olds\nspontaneously produce linear, spatial representations of time.\nWe find that, while English-speakers under age five rarely\nadopt such representations spontaneously, a spatial prime\nincreases the percentage of 4-year-olds producing linear,\nordered representations from 36% to 76%, indicating that by\nthis age, children can readily align the domains of space and\ntime. Nevertheless, these representations often do not take on\nthe conventionalized left-to-right orientation until age 5 or 6.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "time; space; metaphor; word learning; spatial\nrepresentation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/816936t4",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Katharine",
            "middle_name": "A",
            "last_name": "Tillman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Nestor",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tulagan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Barner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California San Diego",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}