{"pk":29449,"title":"Multi-directional mappings in the minds of the Tsimane’:Size, time, and number on three spatial axes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"From early in life, people implicitly associate time, number,and other abstract conceptual domains with space. Accord-ing to the Generalized Magnitude System proposal, these men-tal mappings reflect a common neural system for represent-ing various magnitudes, and share a common spatial organiza-tion. In a test of this proposal, here we measured mappings ofsize, time, and number in the Tsimane’, an indigenous Ama-zonian group with few of the cultural practices (like readingand math) that spatialize size, time, and number in the expe-rience of industrialized adults. On three spatial axes, the Tsi-mane’ systematically arranged imagistic stimuli according totheir magnitudes, but they showed no directional preferencesoverall and individuals often mapped different domains in op-posite directions. The results are inconsistent with predictionsof the Generalized Magnitude System proposal but can be ex-plained by Hierarchical Mental Metaphor Theory, accordingto which mental mappings initially reflect a set of correlationsobservable in the natural world.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Metaphor; Magnitude; Spatial cognition;SNARC; Culture"}],"section":"Spatial Cognition","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pg0941w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pitt","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Casasanto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ferrigno","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""},{"first_name":"Edward","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gibson","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Piantadosi","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29449/galley/19309/download/"}]}