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Gilbert, Aubrey L.; Regier, Terry; Kay, Paul; Ivry, Richard B. – Brain and Language, 2008
Recent work has shown that Whorf effects of language on color discrimination are stronger in the right visual field than in the left. Here we show that this phenomenon is not limited to color: The perception of animal figures (cats and dogs) was more strongly affected by linguistic categories for stimuli presented to the right visual field than…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Visual Perception, Memory, Color
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Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Booth, James R.; Burman, Douglas D. – Brain and Language, 2006
This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain-behavior correlations in a group of 16 children (9- to 12-year-olds). Activation was measured during a semantic judgment task presented in either the visual or auditory modality that required the individual to determine whether a final word was related in meaning to one…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Discrimination, Auditory Discrimination, Neurolinguistics