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A categorial mutation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

Oscar Vilarroya
Oscar Vilarroya*
Affiliation:
Unitat de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva, Departament de Psiquatria i Medicina Legal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08035Barcelona, Spain
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oscar.vilarroya@uab.es
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Abstract

The proposal of Steels & Belpaeme (S&B) is on the right track to solve the nativist/empiricist/culturalist controversy. However, their nativist model of colour categorization does not correspond to a proper genetic model. Colour perception is the outcome of a complex process of development. A direct correspondence between genes and colour categories cannot be the right approach to the problem.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 508 - 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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