{"pk":50341,"title":"Space-time perception of Mandarin Speakers: age, temporal-focus and contextual priming","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Research regarding the Temporal focus hypothesis has contributed to\nunderstanding space-time cognition. However, the relative influence of temporal\nfocus, contextual priming, and age on implicit space-time mapping requires further\ninvestigation. Seventy-one Mandarin-speaking participants in Taiwan responded to\neither past or future-related questions, followed by the temporal diagram task and the\ntemporal-focus questionnaire. Data were analyzed through chi-square and a three-way\nANOVA. Results indicated a significant difference in front-back mapping between\nyounger and older participants while not between the past and the future-primed\nconditions. Notably, most participants tended to locate future events in the front box.\nFurthermore, the ANOVA results revealed that past or future-focused statements and\nage significantly related to participants' temporal attitudes. The current study partially\nsupports the temporal hypothesis; age is significantly related to Mandarin speakers'\nimplicit space-time mapping and temporal focus, whereas the priming condition was\ninsignificant.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Cognition of Time; Language and thought; Perception; Statistics"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r53p31k","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Hsin-Yu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fan Chiang","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Taiwan Normal University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yu-Jui","middle_name":"","last_name":"Huang","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Taiwan Normal University","department":""},{"first_name":"Huichen S.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hsiao","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Taiwan Normal University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50341/galley/38303/download/"}]}