When planning time, Russians use space as an imaginary timeline in the form of a straight line. It has been reported TASS With reference to the press service of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
According to the agency, a group of Russian and European scientists came to such conclusions.
“Scientists … became interested in whether the perception of words denoting time causes a horizontal mental line to appear in people’s minds. And if so, do they rely on spatial modality when they think in terms of hours in a year, a week, or a day? The results of the experiment confirmed the proposed hypothesis.
It is stated that the nature of the scales used depends on the language people speak.
Previously, on the basis of the experiment scientists from the Russian University of Technology (RTU MIREA) proventhe inability of neural networks to create a new scientific or creative product.