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Color categories are inextricably linked to language as color categories are typically, though not necessarily, associated with color terms. It is believed that the acquisition of categories, including color categories, is influenced by language [1]. Prelinguistic infants do seem to have a set of color categories, which are then either consolidated or modified through observing or engaging in linguistic interactions about color.
Language has been shown to have an influence on a range of modalities, such as time, space, and color. This phenomenon, known as linguistic relativism, shows how the language one uses, and by extension the culture one lives in, has an impact on perception and cognition. It has also been shown that language has an influence on color perception: having a particular color word speeds up spotting a chip of that color among distracting color chips [2, 3]. What is not entirely clear is how...
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Belpaeme, T. (2016). Color Category Learning in Naming-Game Simulations. In: Luo, M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_51
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