Colour categories in a stone-age tribe Export

@article{citeulike:5826806, abstract = {The Dani of Irian Jaya are a stone-age Melanesian people who have provided an empirical basis for the study of cross-cultural perception and cognition1, 2, 3. Although they had only two terms for describing colour, the Dani memory for colour seemed to be much like that of modern English speakers. We have investigated another stone-age culture, the Berinmo of Papua New Guinea, for the way in which they categorize colours, but the results do not support the idea that colour categories could be universal.}, author = {Davidoff, Jules and Davies, Ian and Roberson, Debi}, citeulike-article-id = {5826806}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/18335}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/398203a0}, day = {18}, doi = {10.1038/18335}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {category-learning-use, color, language, linguistic-relativity}, month = {March}, number = {6724}, pages = {203--204}, posted-at = {2009-09-23 02:33:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Colour categories in a stone-age tribe}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/18335}, volume = {398}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5826806 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5826806 N2 - The Dani of Irian Jaya are a stone-age Melanesian people who have provided an empirical basis for the study of cross-cultural perception and cognition1, 2, 3. Although they had only two terms for describing colour, the Dani memory for colour seemed to be much like that of modern English speakers. We have investigated another stone-age culture, the Berinmo of Papua New Guinea, for the way in which they categorize colours, but the results do not support the idea that colour categories could be universal. IS - 6724 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 EP - 204 TI - Colour categories in a stone-age tribe PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 398 SP - 203 KW - category-learning-use KW - color KW - language KW - linguistic-relativity AU - Davidoff, Jules AU - Davies, Ian AU - Roberson, Debi PY - 1999/03/18/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/18335 ER -