Casasanto and Boroditsky (2008) investigate whether mental representations of abstract concepts like time are influenced by spatial experiences. They conducted six psychophysical experiments to test if spatial information affects duration judgments, even when language is not involved. Participants viewed lines or dots on a screen and reproduced either their duration or spatial displacement. The results showed that spatial displacement influenced duration estimates, but duration did not affect spatial displacement. This asymmetry aligns with the linguistic metaphor of space influencing time, suggesting that our mental representations of time are built on spatial experiences. The findings indicate that abstract concepts like time may be constructed from physical experiences in perception and action. The study demonstrates that the metaphorical relationship between space and time observed in language also exists in basic representations of distance and duration. The results suggest that our mental representations of things we cannot see or touch may be based on physical experiences. The study also shows that the asymmetry between space and time in language is reflected in non-linguistic tasks, indicating that the relationship is fundamental to human cognition. The findings support the idea of embodied cognition, where mental representations are grounded in physical experiences. The study provides evidence that the metaphorical relationship between space and time is not limited to language but is also present in our basic representations of distance and duration.Casasanto and Boroditsky (2008) investigate whether mental representations of abstract concepts like time are influenced by spatial experiences. They conducted six psychophysical experiments to test if spatial information affects duration judgments, even when language is not involved. Participants viewed lines or dots on a screen and reproduced either their duration or spatial displacement. The results showed that spatial displacement influenced duration estimates, but duration did not affect spatial displacement. This asymmetry aligns with the linguistic metaphor of space influencing time, suggesting that our mental representations of time are built on spatial experiences. The findings indicate that abstract concepts like time may be constructed from physical experiences in perception and action. The study demonstrates that the metaphorical relationship between space and time observed in language also exists in basic representations of distance and duration. The results suggest that our mental representations of things we cannot see or touch may be based on physical experiences. The study also shows that the asymmetry between space and time in language is reflected in non-linguistic tasks, indicating that the relationship is fundamental to human cognition. The findings support the idea of embodied cognition, where mental representations are grounded in physical experiences. The study provides evidence that the metaphorical relationship between space and time is not limited to language but is also present in our basic representations of distance and duration.