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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Sapir-Whorf redux? #152761 12/28/2005 2:09 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York (Published online: 26 December 2005; | doi:10.1038/news051219-18) Language colours vision The left brain may view the world through the prism of language. Charlotte Schubert The language-loving left hemisphere of the brain can spot different colours faster than it can identify different shades of the same colour. Our perception of colours can depend on whether we view them from the left or the right, scientists have found. They say this demonstrates how language can alter the way we see the world..... http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051219/full/051219-18.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself #152762 12/28/2005 7:15 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Thanks for the link, AnnaS! The relationships (dependencies, perhaps) of all the senses seem to be suggested as any questions are asked as to the true nature of thought(crossthreading-e)... as each of us show more or less development through nurture. My hearing makes me focus just as my sight makes me hear or listen for. Certainly a clearer, possibly more direct connection with language that sights and sounds offer is manifest through humor. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: oculokinetic nystagmus #152763 12/28/2005 10:16 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Thanks ASp! If that was also in New Scientist it must be one of the several issues I'm behind on in recent weeks... On perception, have all y'all come across the German site from which my delicious heading comes?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: oculokinetic nystagmus #152764 12/29/2005 12:33 AM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... themilum veteran themilum veteran Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... Great site, Maverick, thank you for passing it on. May ten thousand happy hours visit you in 2006 and only one unhappy one. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: oculokinetic nystagmus #152765 12/29/2005 12:15 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Does Benham's Top require a cathode tube display? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: oculokinetic nystagmus #152766 12/29/2005 1:50 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 > CRT I think you're right, pedro: I get all kinds of interesting effects on that with my LCD display, but decidedly no colour effects. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,917 Posts230,508 Members9,211 Most Online17,319 Apr 8th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 10 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,302 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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