The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof

This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conce

Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or ide

The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisit