Does language change what we perceive? Does speaking different languages cause us to
perceive things differently? We review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for …

The Whorf hypothesis holds that we view the world filtered through the semantic categories
of our native language. Over the years, consensus has oscillated between embrace and …

Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (eg, vision) are more
accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (eg, smell)? The long …

abstract Having a central scientific language remains crucial for advancing and globally
sharing science. Nevertheless, maintaining one dominant language also creates barriers to …

Models of speech perception are in general agreement with respect to the major cortical
regions involved, but lack precision with regard to localization and lateralization of …

Highlights•Cognitive psychology and cultural psychology both examine the influence of
experience on human thought, but there has been scant communication between the two …

Previous neuroimaging studies have suggested that developmental dyslexia has a different
neural basis in Chinese and English populations because of known differences in the …

Categorical perception provides a potential link between color perception and the linguistic
categories that correspond to the basic color terms. We examined whether the sensory …

Previous studies have shown that the effect of language on categorical perception of color is
stronger when stimuli are presented in the right visual field than in the left. To examine …

This Mini‐Review summarizes a wide range of sex differences in the human visual system,
with a primary focus on sex differences in visual perception and its neural basis. We …