Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Conscious Cogn. 2011 Jun;20(2):437-43. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.09.020. Epub 2010 Oct 20.
In a new integration, we show that the visual-spatial structuring of time converges with auditory-spatial left-right judgments for time-related words. In Experiment 1, participants placed past and future-related words respectively to the left and right of the midpoint on a horizontal line, reproducing earlier findings. In Experiment 2, neutral and time-related words were presented over headphones. Participants were asked to indicate whether words were louder on the left or right channel. On critical experimental trials, words were presented equally loud binaurally. As predicted, participants judged future words to be louder on the right channel more often than past-related words. Furthermore, there was a significant cross-modal overlap between the visual-spatial ordering (Experiment 1) and the auditory judgments (Experiment 2), which were continuously related. These findings provide support for the assumption that space and time have certain invariant properties that share a common structure across modalities.
在一项新的整合研究中，我们表明时间的视觉-空间结构与与时间相关的词语的听觉-空间左右判断趋于一致。在实验 1 中，参与者将过去和未来相关的词语分别放在一条水平线的中点的左侧和右侧，重现了早期的发现。在实验 2 中，中性和时间相关的词语通过耳机呈现。参与者被要求指出词语在左声道还是右声道更响亮。在关键的实验试验中，词语以相等的音量从双耳呈现。正如预测的那样，参与者更频繁地判断未来的词语在右声道上更响亮，而不是过去相关的词语。此外，视觉-空间排序（实验 1）和听觉判断（实验 2）之间存在显著的跨模态重叠，它们是连续相关的。这些发现为空间和时间具有某些不变属性的假设提供了支持，这些属性在不同的模态中具有共同的结构。
