When the Sad Past Is Left: The Mental Metaphors Between Time, Valence, and Space.

ABSTRACT: A mental metaphor is a strategy that consists of completing the representation of a concept with structural components of a correlating concept. Three issues were addressed here to deepen our understanding of this mechanism: the use of mental metaphors between abstract concepts, the simultaneous activation of multiple mental metaphors and the importance of the focus of attention on the relevant dimensions of a mental metaphor. In two experiments, participants made temporal or valence judgments (with their left or right hand) on verbs with a negative or positive meaning and conjugated in the past or future form, allowing for the simultaneous activation of the "time is space", "valence is space," and "time is valence" mental metaphors. Left-past/right-future and left-negative/right-positive

SUBMITTER: Spatola N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033299 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature