Tim pointed my attention to an article of the New York Times referencing the article Moving Through Time by Lynden K. Miles, Louise K. Nind and C. Neil Macrae in the January 10 issue of Psychological Science.
The authors say:
Our findings demonstrate that mental time travel has an observable behavioral correlate—the direction of people’s movements through space (i.e., retrospective thought = backward movement, prospective thought = forward movement).
What would be very interesting is to know whether the Aymara people of Bolivia and Peru, whose language considers that the future is behind a person and the past in front, would recline towards the back when thinking about the future and incline towards the front when thinking of the past.
What would make that particularly interesting is that, if positive, it would go towards the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of language embodiment.
Bertrand du Castel
The authors say:
Our findings demonstrate that mental time travel has an observable behavioral correlate—the direction of people’s movements through space (i.e., retrospective thought = backward movement, prospective thought = forward movement).
What would be very interesting is to know whether the Aymara people of Bolivia and Peru, whose language considers that the future is behind a person and the past in front, would recline towards the back when thinking about the future and incline towards the front when thinking of the past.
What would make that particularly interesting is that, if positive, it would go towards the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of language embodiment.
Bertrand du Castel
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