Taiwanese participants were just as likely to depict time as moving from LR as from top to bottom, with a large minority depicting it as moving from right to left. Mainland Chinese participants trended in the same direction, but a small portion laid the cards out from top to bottom. Results showed that English speakers always represented time as moving from left to right (LR). These cards depicted stages of development of plants and animals, for instance: tadpole, froglet, frog. In a behavioral experiment, we had native speakers of English, Mandarin Chinese from mainland China, and Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan place sets of cards in temporal order. Because being a fluent reader–writer entails thousands of hours of experience with eye and hand movement in the direction dictated by one’s writing system, it could be that writing system direction affects the axis used to represent time in terms of space. But in Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then right to left. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to bottom. What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. 2 Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.1 Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
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