01:615:371 Lecture Notes - English Subjunctive, Counterfactual Conditional, Tacit Assumption
24 Nov 2013
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Extra credit talk friday @ 1pm gateway transit building rm 524 (ab) Trahumara whorfian prediction (that language used affects in some way thought processes) Discrimination between colors with different names faster in rvf (right visual field) Discrimination between colors with same name slower in rvf. This is determined by laterality of the brain and where language/speech information is processed. Language is found in the left hemisphere of the brain. The faster you are, the lower your reaction time in the graph of the tarahumara experiment. Second prediction would all be labeled as green by english speakers, although one of them is visually different. Language is tricking you even though visually one of them may be an a and one a b. Your language is only in your right hemisphere, can only trick you if information goes to your language hemisphere first.
