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One thing that interests me, though the article and study don't touch on it, is that we as humans tend to visualize our number lines on the X axis (e.g. left an
by jawns 12y ago
One thing that interests me, though the article and study don't touch on it, is that we as humans tend to visualize our number lines on the X axis (e.g. left and right), rather than the Y axis (up and down), Z axis (forward and backward), or W axis (ana and kata).
I know there are some writing systems in which writing is done up/down rather than left/right. I wonder how that influences the spatial visualization of numbers.
I also wonder whether other species might visualize numbers on something other than the X axis.
- eterm 12y agoI heard once[1] that whether people visualize time on a left-right / x-axis or a back-front z-axis correlates to generally how organised they are. [1]I don't have a source, so consider it "bloke down the pub" reliability.
- cafard 12y agoI think that the ancient Greeks envisioned the future coming from behind them. Of course, they didn't have a notion x-axis, did they?