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While color perception universally involves the practice of categorizing colors according to basic labels, concludes a new study that investigated the influence of categorization on color memory. As ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Berlin and Kay (1969) have postulated 11 basic color categories as the total universal inventory from which categories of any language are ...

Color plays an important role in conveying visual information, but the language we use to express what we see is limited. Recent studies show that color terms used in Japanese also change over time.

CAMDEN, N.J. -- How do we remember colors? What makes green... green? As Sarah Allred explains, while color perception universally involves the practice of categorizing colors according to basic ...