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how culture might constrain color categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

debi roberson  and
catherine o'hanlon
debi roberson
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of essex, colchester, essex, co4 3sq, united kingdomrobedd@essex.ac.uk http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/psychology/clients/debiroberson/debiroberson.html cgohan@essex.ac.uk http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/psychology/phdstudents/ohanlon.html
catherine o'hanlon
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of essex, colchester, essex, co4 3sq, united kingdomrobedd@essex.ac.uk http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/psychology/clients/debiroberson/debiroberson.html cgohan@essex.ac.uk http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/psychology/phdstudents/ohanlon.html
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Abstract

if language is crucial to the development of shared colour categories, how might cultural constraints influence the development of divergent category sets? we propose that communities arrive at different sets of categories because the tendency to group by perceptual similarity interacts with environmental factors (differential access to dying and printing technologies), to make different systems optimal for communication in different situations.

Type
open peer commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 505 - 506
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press

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