{"id":58,"date":"2006-01-05T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-16T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T02:11:15","slug":"seeing-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Seeing words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ikeabears\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/genista\/30546034\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000\" alt=\"ikeabears\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/23\/30546034_b885c667c7_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/0509868103v1\">neat new study<\/a> done right here at UC Berkeley finds that when the colours of a target has a different name from that of distractors, the left hemisphere is faster at finding the target than the right, while this advantage disappears for colours without a naming difference. The left hemisphere&#8217;s edge also disappeared when an additional task taxed verbal working memory, but not when spatial working memory was taxed instead.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worf\">Worf <\/a> had it right, after all, when he said &#8220;Sir, I protest &#8211; I am not a merry man!&#8221;. And <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whorf\">Whorf<\/a> was right, as well: language indeed  does influence our brain&#8217;s operations on a very basic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat new study done right here at UC Berkeley finds that when the colours of a target has a different name from that of distractors, the left hemisphere is faster at finding the target than the right, while this advantage disappears for colours without a naming difference. The left hemisphere&#8217;s edge also disappeared when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkeley","category-englisch","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}