人脑对时间的概念（双语）
DRAW a line across a page, then write on it what you had for dinner yesterday and what you plan to eat tomorrow. If you are a native English speaker, or hail from pretty much any European country, you no doubt wrote last night's meal to the left of tomorrow night's. That's because we construct mental timelines to represent and reason about time, and most people in the West think of the past as on the left, and the future as on the right.Arnaud Saj at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues wondered whether the ability to conjure up a mental timeline is a necessary part of reasoning about events in time.
在纸上画一条线，然后在上面写上你昨天晚饭吃了什么以及你明天打算吃什么。如果你是一个母语为英语的人，或是来自任何一个欧洲国家的人，毫无疑问你会在左侧写上昨天晚餐吃得什么，右侧写上明天打算吃什么。这一切和我们构建时间轴来表达和思考时间有关。大部分西方人会用左侧表示过去，而用右侧表示将来。
瑞士日内瓦大学的阿尔诺·萨杰和他的同事们想要进行相关研究，弄清楚在脑海里设想时间轴是否是推断时间发生先后的必要步骤。
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