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

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What Does That Mean?

In the 1960s, two linguists noticed in their field work that some languages had fewer basic color words than others. They found that all languages develop color terms in a specific order. First they start with white and black, then they'll include a red, then you get either a green or a yellow,. Then you get both, then you getting blue and so on. What we're talking about here is something called categorical perceptions which are what make up cognition.

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