Color vision: color categories vary with language after all.
An intriguing new study with Russian and English participants has provided compelling support for the view that 'categorical perception' of color categories is verbally mediated and varies with culture and language.
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, UK. robedd@essex.ac.uk
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D003118:Color Perception; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics