The Role of Perspective in Mental Time Travel
Joint Authors
Pia, Lorenzo
Ansuini, Caterina
Cavallo, Andrea
Becchio, Cristina
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Recent years have seen accumulating evidence for the proposition that people process time by mapping it onto a linear spatial representation and automatically “project” themselves on an imagined mental time line.
Here, we ask whether people can adopt the temporal perspective of another person when travelling through time.
To elucidate similarities and differences between time travelling from one’s own perspective or from the perspective of another person, we asked participants to mentally project themselves or someone else (i.e., a coexperimenter) to different time points.
Three basic properties of mental time travel were manipulated: temporal location (i.e., where in time the travel originates: past, present, and future), motion direction (either backwards or forwards), and temporal duration (i.e., the distance to travel: one, three, or five years).
We found that time travels originating in the present lasted longer in the self- than in the other-perspective.
Moreover, for self-perspective, but not for other-perspective, time was differently scaled depending on where in time the travel originated.
In contrast, when considering the direction and the duration of time travelling, no dissimilarities between the self- and the other-perspective emerged.
These results suggest that self- and other-projection, despite some differences, share important similarities in structure.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ansuini, Caterina& Cavallo, Andrea& Pia, Lorenzo& Becchio, Cristina. 2015. The Role of Perspective in Mental Time Travel. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113058
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ansuini, Caterina…[et al.]. The Role of Perspective in Mental Time Travel. Neural Plasticity No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113058
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ansuini, Caterina& Cavallo, Andrea& Pia, Lorenzo& Becchio, Cristina. The Role of Perspective in Mental Time Travel. Neural Plasticity. 2015. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1113058
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1113058