Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T06:26:24.179Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Insights from the colour category controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2008

Tony Belpaeme
Tony Belpaeme
Affiliation:
School of Computing, Communications, and Electronics, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA Plymouth, United Kingdom. tony.belpaeme@plymouth.ac.ukhttp://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SoCCE/staff/TonyBelpaeme/
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

There are striking parallels between the basic tastes debate and the debate on human colour categorisation. Colour categories show a remarkable cross-cultural similarity, but at the same the time exhibit seemingly inexplicable large interpersonal variations. Recent results suggest that colour categories are the result of cultural learning constrained by the neural substrate of colour perception.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 75 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Belpaeme, T. & Bleys, J. (2005) Explaining universal colour categories through a constrained acquisition process. Adaptive Behavior 13(4):293–310.Google Scholar
Berlin, B. & Kay, P. (1969) Basic color terms: Their universality and evolution. University of California Press.Google Scholar
De Valois, R. L., Abramov, I. & Jacobs, G. H. (1966) Analysis of response patterns of LGN cells. Journal of the Optical Society of America 56(7):966–77.Google Scholar
Dowman, M. (2006) Explaining color term typology with an evolutionary model. Cognitive Science 31(1):99–132.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Drivonikou, G. V., Kay, P., Regier, T., Ivry, R. B., Gilbert, A. L., Franklin, A. & Davies, I. R. L. (2007) Further evidence that Whorfian effects are stronger in the right visual field than the left. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(3):1097–02.Google Scholar
Fairchild, M. D. (1998) Color appearance models. Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
Gegenfurtner, K. R. & Sharpe, L. T. (1999) Color vision: From genes to perception. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Gilbert, A., Regier, T., Kay, P. & Ivry, R. (2006). Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(2):489–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gleason, H. A. (1961) An introduction to descriptive linguistics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.Google Scholar
Hardin, C. L. & Maffi, L. (1997) Color categories in thought and language. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Hering, E. (1964) Outlines of a theory of the light sense. Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Jameson, K. & D'Andrade, R. (1997) It's not really red, green, yellow, blue: An inquiry into perceptual color space. In: Color categories in thought and language, ed. Hardin, C. L. & Maffi, L., pp. 295–319. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Jameson, K. A. (2007) What is the role of computer modeling and evolutionary game theory in cross-cultural color categorisation research? Paper presented at the The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach, CA., U.S.A., 2007.Google Scholar
Kay, P. & Regier, T. (2003) Resolving the question of color naming universals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(15):9085–89.Google Scholar
Lammens, J. M. G. (1994) A computational model of color perception and color naming. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo.Google Scholar
Lindsey, D. T. & Brown, A. M. (2006) Universality of color names. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(44):16608–13.Google Scholar
Puglisi, A., Baronchelli, A. & Loreto, V. (2007) Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories. Available at: http://arxiv.org/e-print/physics/0703164.Google Scholar
Regier, T., Kay, P. & Cook, R. S. (2005) Focal colors are universal after all. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102(23):8386–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roberson, D. & Hanley, J. R. (2007) Color vision: Color categories vary with language after all. Current Biology 17(15):605–07.Google Scholar
Steels, L. & Belpaeme, T. (2005) Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(8):469–529.CrossRefGoogle Scholar