Time travel through language: Temporal shifts rapidly decrease information accessibility during reading

Time travel through language: temporal shifts rapidly decrease information accessibility during reading.

The present study dissociated the immediate neural costs from the subsequent neural consequences of integrating time shifts into our mental representations of events. Event-related potentials were recorded as participants read scenarios that included words referring to short temporal shifts (e.g., after one second), moderate temporal shifts (e.g., after one hour), or long temporal shifts (e.g.,...

Travel Time Variability and Airport Accessibility

This paper analyses the cost of access travel time variability for air travelers. Reliable access to airports is important since it is likely that the cost of missing a flight is high. First, the determinants of the preferred arrival times at airports are analyzed, including trip purpose, type of airport, flight characteristics, travel experience, type of check-in, need to check-in luggage. Sec...

Time is of the Essence: Processing Temporal Connectives During Reading

An important study by Münte, Schiltz, and Kutas [Nature 395 (1998) 71-73] using ERPs (=Event-Related brain Potentials) suggested that sentences starting with the temporal connective before are more taxing for working memory than sentences starting with after, as evidenced by a slow negative shift for before sentences. According to Münte et al., before sentences present events out of the correct...

Quality of Real-time Travel Time Information

Shifts in Detail through Temporal Zooming

Spatio-temporal knowledge representation often requires shifting from one level of detail to another so that users can carry out a desired task. Geographic information systems typically treat such alterations in detail with respect to the geometric properties of objects. In this paper, we extend the theories based on geometrical considerations only to an approach that focuses on shifts between ...