And finally there is a further, fifth, phenomenon. It has long been debated whether we can conceive of, or, in a stronger version, even be aware of, things for which we have no words: the so-called, largely discredited, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.34 An interesting piece of research suggests that language does interfere with perception in the left hemisphere (the right visual field), but not in the right hemisphere (left visual field). The authors conclude that ‘it appears that people view the
