{"pk":26141,"title":"Representing Sequence: The Influence of Timeline Axis and Directionon Causal Reasoning in Litigation Law","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Can the representation of event sequence influence how jurorsremember and reason in a legal case? We addressed this ques-tion by examining the interaction between an individual’s pre-ferred spatial construal of time (SCT) for an external (visual-spatial) representation and the SCT of a courtroom graphic.One hundred fifty three undergraduates played the role of ju-rors in a fictitious civil trial. The details of a case were re-counted in a multimedia presentation featuring timelines an-imated in one of four orientations: left-right, right-left, top-bottom, and bottom-top. Participants were assessed on mea-sures of comprehension and causal reasoning. Results indi-cated effects of timeline orientation and SCT choice behav-ior on comprehension and reasoning. We discuss these resultsin terms of the role of attention in temporal-causal reasoning,and implications for the design of multimedia materials for thecourtroom.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"external representation; courtroom graphics; visu-alization; spatial construal of time; sequence; events; multime-dia learning"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73r7w6hd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"Rae","last_name":"Fox","name_suffix":"","institution":"California State University - Chico ; University of California San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"van den","last_name":"Berg","name_suffix":"","institution":"California State University - Chico","department":""},{"first_name":"Erica","middle_name":"de","last_name":"Vries","name_suffix":"","institution":"Univ. Grenoble Alpes","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26141/galley/15777/download/"}]}