article_snippet: Speaking two languages really could give you a split personality, researchers have found.
article_snippet: researchers say that many speakers have entirely different personalities in each of the languages researchers speak.
article_snippet: Previously research has even found those who are bilingual even see colours differently.
article_snippet: Researchers say that speaking in another language can change our personality. '
article_snippet: Rather than ask whether speakers of different languages have different minds, Rather than ask whether speakers of different languages have different minds says, 'we ask, Can two different minds exist within one person?' said psycholinguist Panos Athanasopoulos of Lancaster University. '
article_snippet: The extent to which language affects this process has been the focus of a long-standing debate: Do different languages cause different languages speakers to behave differently?,' the team wrote. '
article_snippet: Here, we show that fluent German-English bilinguals categorize motion events according to the grammatical constraints of the language in which they operate.
article_snippet: This linguistic difference seems to influence how speakers of the two languages view events, according to the research. '
article_snippet: First, as predicted from cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding, participants functioning in a German testing context prefer to match events on the basis of motion completion to a greater extent than participants in an English context.
article_snippet: Second, when participants suffer verbal interference in English, participants categorization behavior is congruent with that predicted for German and when we switch the language of interference to German, their categorization becomes congruent with that predicted for English. '
article_snippet: These findings show that language effects on cognition are context-bound and transient, revealing unprecedented levels of malleability in human cognition.'
article_snippet: Between 2001 and 2003, linguists Jean-Marc Dewaele and Aneta Pavlenko asked over a thousand bilinguals whether linguists Jean-Marc Dewaele and Aneta Pavlenko 'feel like a different person' when linguists Jean-Marc Dewaele and Aneta Pavlenko speak different langauges.
article_snippet: Scientists have also found that regularly speaking in a second language makes you literally see the world in a different way.
article_snippet: Color perception is an ideal way of testing bilingual concepts because there is a huge variation between where different languages place boundaries on the color spectrum.
highlights_snippet: Found people thought differently depending language used .