Color Vision: Color Categories Vary with Language after All
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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.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.057