Your Text Describes Recent Brain-Imaging Work Examining the Influence of Color-Labeling

question 24

Multiple Choice

Your text describes recent brain-imaging work examining the influence of color-labeling systems on brain processing. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

• A) Color-labeling systems have no effect on brain processing, supporting the Whorfian hypothesis.
• B) Color-labeling systems have no effect on brain processing, contradicting the Whorfian hypothesis.
• C) Beginning in childhood, color labels seem to have an effect on left-hemisphere processing
• D) Beginning in adolescence, color labels seem to have some effect on left-hemisphere processing.

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