Does language determine what you see?
April 4th 2006 23:11
Your brain’s left hemisphere is the area where we handle language, as well as processing information from our right eye, or field of view. It has been considered that if language affects perception, it should be more bias to the right visual field than left. Researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley tested the difference between the left and right fields of views’ ability to distinguish between what in English is called “blue” and “green”. It was shown that reaction times in the right visual field were faster when the left field of view had a colour of a different name. If asked to perform a memory game at the same time, this pattern diminished. The report suggests that people view the right half of their visual world in their native language, and not their left.
Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry
“Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2006 103: 489-494; published online before print December 30 2005
http://www.pnas.org/
Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry
“Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2006 103: 489-494; published online before print December 30 2005
http://www.pnas.org/
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