W. S. Gilbert Visual Quotations

Participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the color of the other squares. But, most importantly, this only occurred if the odd-man-out was in the right half of the visual field.

When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli in the two visual fields disappeared. The differences remained, however, when the secondary task was of a non-linguistic nature.

The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one's perception, or at least one's perceptual discrimination, of the world may differ by visual field. Our paper is the first to propose that language may shape just half of our visual world.

So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the visual field than in the left.