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Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

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How to Show the Colors Game With Native Speakers

If you wanted to separate cultural and linguistic influences on color perception from like innate biological category perception of color, you would want something that could see like a human but didn't have language. So I recommend one of these. You do what Anna Franklin at the University of Sussex did. She strap some four months olds into car seats and make them look at colors because babies, if they see something unfamiliar, they look at it for longer. It's got the basic tool in developmental psychology. They can tell what categories they distinguish between and which ones they don't.

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