"Categorical Perception" and Linguistic Categorization of Color

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0237-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0237-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0237-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13164-015-0237-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"Categorical Perception" and Linguistic Categorization of Color

Original language description

This paper offers a conceptual clarification of the phenomenon commonly referred to as categorical perception of color, both in adults and in infants. First, I argue against the common notion of categorical perception as involving a distortion of the perceptual color space. The effects observed in the categorical perception research concern categorical discrimination performance and the underlying processing; they need not directly reflect the relations of color similarity and difference. Moreover, the methodology of the research actually presupposes that the relations of similarity and difference do not vary with languages. The observed categorical perception effects should be conceived independently of the perceptual color space. Second, I challenge the usual opinion that the existing evidence on infant &quot;categorical perception&quot; allows us to conclude that infants perceptually categorize color, and in particular, that they have perceptual categories that resemble the basic color categories of English. Such conclusions rest on an unjustified interpretation of the infant &quot;categorical perception&quot; findings in terms of adult linguistic categorical boundaries. Based on the suggested new understanding, I propose that the phenomenon, as present in infants, should be conceived and examined as a possible explanatory factor with respect to the existing patterns of color naming in languages of the world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

ISSN

1878-5158

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

55-70

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84958260934