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Universal colour perception versus contingent colour naming: A paradox?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Noud W. H. van Kruysbergen ,
Anna M. T. Bosman  and
Charles de Weert
Noud W. H. van Kruysbergen
Affiliation:
NICI, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The [email protected]/[email protected]/staff.html
Anna M. T. Bosman
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The [email protected]/ped/ortho/bosman/bosman.html
Charles de Weert
Affiliation:
NICI, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The [email protected]/[email protected]/staff.html
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Abstract

Confusion concerning the issue of universality of colour categorization would greatly diminish if context regains its fundamental status in psychological research and we give up on the reductionist notion that biological universality implies behavioral universality.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 209 - 210
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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