Focal colors are universal after all

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 8386-8391

  Regier, Terry ^a   Kay, Paul ^b   Cook, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Best example; Categories; Linguistic relativity Berinmo; Whorf

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIETY;

EID: 20444394046     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0503281102     Document Type: Article

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