Temporal abstraction (TA) is a methodology widely used in medical reasoning for summarizing and abstracting longitudinal data.
The clicker feedback activity in Experiment 2 was associated with improved examination scores, and more linear representations of temporal and abstract numeric magnitudes, relative to students who received normal class instruction.
We find that reasoning about different kinds of magnitude (that is, temporal and abstract) at different scales (that is, inside and outside human perception) have shared properties, and that people are able to use a spatial representation of temporal magnitude to develop a more accurate understanding of geologic time.
Words were grouped under various headings: visual, tactile, numeric, locational, abstract, temporal, professional, violent, communal, mental, emotional and social.
Study 3 showed that the mechanism underlying the effect of employee temporal perspective is abstract versus concrete cognitions about employment.
Because the temporal profile can abstract passing targets with efficient computation, an even more compact digest of the surveillance video can be created.
Graphical abstract Temporal evolution of the maximum vertical displacement and average yearly rate of height change.
We define external shock events by using three abstract temporal timeslices: t 0 representing a short-term impact, t 1 representing a mid-term impact, and t 2 representing a long-term impact.
However, the conflation of abstract temporal concepts with concrete spatial information may also have more sociocultural origins.
It remains to be seen if the ability of the hippocampus to construct future spatial sequences is related to the generation of more abstract temporal associations (Kraus et al., 2013; Eichenbaum and Cohen, 2014).
Temporality can be added as a fourth criterion on representations for reductive explanations: (iv) temporal hierarchy: for an abstract hierarchy embedded in an explanation, the entities and their behaviors on the lower level are temporally prior to the entities and their behaviors at the higher levels (Hüttemann and Love 2011).
