Saphir-Whorf partially validated

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

The earlier study has been brought up, if I recall correctly; but I'm surprised I haven't seen this latest study discussed here yet. A recent paper titled "Whorf Hypothesis is Supported in the Right Visual Field but not in the Left" confirmed that words can alter how we perceive the world, up to a point. Excerpt:

An earlier study by Paul Kay and colleagues had shown that speakers of
English and Tarahumara perceive colors differently: English speakers
found blues and greens to be more distinct from each other than
speakers of Tarahumara did, as if the English "green" / "blue"
linguistic distinction sharpened the perceptual difference between the
colors themselves. The present study essentially repeated the English
part of that earlier test, but also made sure that colors were
presented to either the right or the left half of the visual field —
something the earlier study hadn't done — so as to test whether
language influences the right half of our visual world more than the
left half, as predicted by brain organization.

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060131.regier.shtml

-epkat