title: Response mode does not modulate the space-time congruency effect: evidence for a space-time mapping at a conceptual level.
abstract: Previous studies reported a space-time congruency effect on response time, supporting the notion that people's thinking about time is grounded in their spatial sensorimotor experience. According to a strong view of metaphoric mapping, the congruency effect should be larger for responses that differ in their spatial features than for responses that lack such differences. In contrast, a weaker version of this account posits that the grounding of time is based on higher-level spatial concepts. In this case, response mode should not modulate the size of the space-time congruency effect. In order to assess these predictions, participants in this study responded to temporal stimuli either manually or vocally. Response mode did not modulate the space-time congruency effect which supports the weaker view of metaphoric mapping suggesting that this effect emerges at a higher cognitive level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: verena.eikmeier@uni-tuebingen.de.
authors.forename: Verena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Eikmeier
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dorothée
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hoppe
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ulrich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D019365:Metaphor; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Conceptual metaphor; Mental timeline; Motor experience; Processing level; Response mode; Space–time congruency effect