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Time is on my side...or behind me...or in front of me...or whatever!

By clock on June 20, 2006.

Yes, I know that I am supposed to be the resident expert on all things temporal (check the name of this blog, after all), and I am actually very interested in the topic of subjective perception of time (in humans, among others), but I did not say anything about the latest study on the Aymara language in which the space-time metaphors are reversed in comparison to most/all (is it not all or is it really all?) other known languages. SEED just released an article on the topic as well.

Blogosphere covered the story quite a lot, but I was waiting for the real experts on this to chime in, and they delivered with gusto! Dave and Greta have written not one, but two posts on the topic (so far?).

Now Chris (of Mixing Memory blog) has written a post as well, as I just knew he would - how could he resist. After all, this is something that is up his alley and he has written two excellent posts on the topic before - I urge you to check them out here and here.

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Psychology
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