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While the debate over the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis—also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis—has been raging for untold billions of seconds, Tuesday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has a report that details research on how learning a color’s name changes its perception, in a way.
Quoth the Berkeley linguist, “It appears, as far as we can tell, that somehow the brain, when it has categories such as color, it actually consults those categories.”
Specifically, before one learns—for example—that yellow is called yellow, his or her brain handles greenness on the right side of the brain, while adults think about color with the left side.
Similarly, learning what to call an animal changes perception from right to left.
So … the ancient Greeks were actually pretty childish?
Image Source: fensterbme under Creative Commons
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