Words Affect Our Reality - On The Right

The Whorf hypothesis claims that one's native language influences perception and thought. Researchers at UC-Berkeley and U-Chicago reasoned that, since language is predominantly processed in the left hemisphere of the brain, any effect on perception should have an effect predominantly on the right visual field, which is also processed on the left. After comparing reaction times for hues of blue-green -- colors with distinct names in one language but not another -- they concluded, in a just-published paper, that the Whorf hypothesis holds for the right visual field, but not the left.

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The Worf Hypothesis?

[digitaldc]

But I thought the Worf hypothesis was his perception of honor as taught (but not always practiced by his native people) and that this is complicated by family relationships which echo his duality of culture in both his personal and public life?