Filomena Anelli, Gregory Peters-Founshtein, Yaen Shreibman, Elior Moreh, Chiara Forlani, Francesca Frassinetti, Shahar Arzy
The nature-nurture debate regarding the origin of mental lines is fundamental for cognitive neuroscience. We examined natural-nurture effects on the mental time line, applying three different challenges to the directionality of time representation. We tested (1) patients with left-neglect and healthy participants, who are (2) left-to-right or right-to-left readers/writers, using (3) a lateralized left-right button press or a vocal mode in response to a mental time task, which asks participants to judge whether events have already happened in the past or are still to happen in the future...
August 3, 2018: Scientific Reports