Critically, the color of this odd-man-out had either the same name as the other squares-for example, a shade of green-while the others were all a different shade of green, or a different name, such as a shade of blue, while the others were all a shade of green.

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We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further.

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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.

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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.

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We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. The evening I first reviewed the split-brain patient data I called people at home in my excitement to share the findings.

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

— Aubrey Gilbert