Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. When you look at a rainbow, do you see bands of specific ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cognitive scientists at MIT who studied more than 100 languages say they have discovered a pattern in the way different cultures discern and label colors. While the human eye can perceive millions of ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...