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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
Affiliation:
NICI, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlandskruysbergen@nici.kun.nlwww.nici.kun.nl/staff.htmldeweert@nici.kun.nlwww.nici.kun.nl/staff.html
Anna M. T. Bosman
Affiliation:
Department of Special Education, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlandsa.bosman@ped.kun.nlwww.socsci.kun.nl/ped/ortho/bosman/bosman.html
Charles de Weert
Affiliation:
NICI, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlandskruysbergen@nici.kun.nlwww.nici.kun.nl/staff.htmldeweert@nici.kun.nlwww.nici.kun.nl/staff.html

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
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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