Roberson, D and Davidoff, J and Davies, IRL and Shapiro, LR (2005) Color categories: Evidence for the cultural relativity hypothesis. Cognitive Psychology, 50 (4). pp. 378-411. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.10.001
Roberson, D and Davidoff, J and Davies, IRL and Shapiro, LR (2005) Color categories: Evidence for the cultural relativity hypothesis. Cognitive Psychology, 50 (4). pp. 378-411. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.10.001
Roberson, D and Davidoff, J and Davies, IRL and Shapiro, LR (2005) Color categories: Evidence for the cultural relativity hypothesis. Cognitive Psychology, 50 (4). pp. 378-411. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.10.001
Abstract
The question of whether language affects our categorization of perceptual continua is of particular interest for the domain of color where constraints on categorization have been proposed both within the visual system and in the visual environment. Recent research (Roberson, Davies, & Davidoff, 2000; Roberson et al., in press) found substantial evidence of cognitive color differences between different language communities, but concerns remained as to how representative might be a tiny, extremely remote community. The present study replicates and extends previous findings using additional paradigms among a larger community in a different visual environment. Adult semi-nomadic tribesmen in Southern Africa carried out similarity judgments, short-term memory and long-term learning tasks. They showed different cognitive organization of color to both English and another language with the five color terms. Moreover, Categorical Perception effects were found to differ even between languages with broadly similar color categories. The results provide further evidence of the tight relationship between language and cognition.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Color; Perceptual categorization; Linguistic relativity |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2015 12:43 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 17:52 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/12985 |