Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language Export

@article{citeulike:4308335, abstract = {Categorization is a fundamental property of human cognition. This article presents a summary of recent research that has reexamined the nature of linguistic and nonlinguistic color categories and the relationship between them. Improvements in experimental paradigms combined with a better understanding of the relationship between physiology and higher level cognition have led to a clearer understanding of the complexities of the relationship between culture, language, cognition, and perception. It is concluded that possession of linguistic color categories facilitates recognition and influences perceptual judgments, even in languages with terms that are less abstract than English. Cognitive categories for color appear to be tightly tied to the linguistic terms used to describe them.}, author = {Roberson, Debi}, citeulike-article-id = {4308335}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1177/1069397104267890}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069397104267890}, doi = {10.1177/1069397104267890}, journal = {Cross-Cultural Research}, keywords = {category-learning-use, color, linguistic-relativity}, number = {1}, pages = {56--71}, posted-at = {2009-04-14 19:26:33}, priority = {3}, title = {Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069397104267890}, volume = {39}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4308335 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4308335 N2 - Categorization is a fundamental property of human cognition. This article presents a summary of recent research that has reexamined the nature of linguistic and nonlinguistic color categories and the relationship between them. Improvements in experimental paradigms combined with a better understanding of the relationship between physiology and higher level cognition have led to a clearer understanding of the complexities of the relationship between culture, language, cognition, and perception. It is concluded that possession of linguistic color categories facilitates recognition and influences perceptual judgments, even in languages with terms that are less abstract than English. Cognitive categories for color appear to be tightly tied to the linguistic terms used to describe them. IS - 1 JF - Cross-Cultural Research EP - 71 TI - Color Categories Are Culturally Diverse in Cognition as Well as in Language VL - 39 SP - 56 KW - category-learning-use KW - color KW - linguistic-relativity AU - Roberson, Debi PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1069397104267890 ER -