No doubt, the spatial character of count nouns and perfective verbs stems from boundary detection. But, the perceptual process responsible for distinguishing count and mass nouns, as well as perfective and imperfective verbs, is not spatial in the (top-down) sense of being near or far away, as Langacker suggests, but spatial perception in the sense of spatial versus temporal presence.
I would suggest that the issue is a bit more complex. A closer examination of construal level theory (CLT) indicates that the issues are not as discrete as they may seem initially. Langacker (2012) and several scholars (e.g., Alony, 2006; Fauconnier & Turner (2008); Liberman et al., 2007) have recognized the cognitive interrelation of space, time, social distance, and degree of probability. Indeed, we see discussions of this interrelation as early as Lakoff & Johnson (1980). In these accounts, there is no difference with regard to cognitive processing across the four dimensions. Bar-Anan, Liberman, Trope, & Algom (2007) used a modified Stroop test as a way of confirmation.
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