title: Telling time from analog and digital clocks: a multiple-route account.
abstract: Does the naming of clocks always require conceptual preparation? To examine this question, speakers were presented with analog and digital clocks that had to be named in Dutch using either a relative (e.g., "quarter to four") or an absolute (e.g., "three forty-five") clock time expression format. Naming latencies showed evidence of conceptual preparation when speakers produced relative time expressions to analog and digital clocks, but not when they used absolute time expressions. These findings indicate that conceptual mediation is not always mandatory for telling time, but instead depends on clock time expression format, supporting a multiple-route account of Dutch clock time naming.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Department of Neurology, Section Neuropsychology, Aachen, Germany. korvorst@neuropsych.rwth-aachen.de
authors.forename: Marjolein
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korvorst
authors.forename: Ardi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roelofs
authors.forename: Willem J M
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Levelt
mesh_terms: D000703:Analog-Digital Conversion; D002910:Chronology as Topic; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013998:Time Perception; D014796:Visual Perception