“…Our own research (Klippel & Li, 2009), results by Shariff, Egenhofer, and Mark (1998), behavioral assessments of Allen’s temporal calculus (Lu, Harter, & Graesser, 2009), and various formal approaches (e.g., Camara & Jungert, 2007) show that topological (and corresponding qualitative temporal) relations are cognitively salient to different degrees. For example, while it would be possible to allow for the following combination of MCs: MC DC MC EC MC PO MC TPP , it is questionable as to whether this should constitute a salient term in the MCG.…”