Color perception - 3 articles

Perceptual and categorical judgements of color similarity

Davidoff, J. Goldstein, J., Tharp, I, Wakui, E. & Fagot, J. (2012). Perceptual and categorical judgements of color similarity. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24,871-892.   Copyright restrictions prevent me from posting this article online, but you can request it from me below.   Abstract – Consideration is given to the tasks that make judgements of […]

Cross-species assessment of the linguistic origins of color categories.

Davidoff, J., & Fagot, J. (2010). Cross-species Assessment of the Linguistic Origins of Color Categories. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 5, 100-116   Abstract – This article considers the relation between language and categorical perception (CP) of colour. Two opposite theories are reviewed, the universalist position arguing that categories are universal with an essentially biological […]

Cross species differences in colour categorisation.

Fagot, J., Goldstein, J, Davidoff, J. & Pickering, A. (2006). Cross species differences in colour categorisation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 275-280   Abstract – Berlin and Kay (1969) found systematic restrictions in the color terms of the world’s languages and were inclined to look to the primate visual system for their origin. Because the […]

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