Culture and cognition: What is universal about the representation of color experience?

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 293-347

  Jameson, Kimberly A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognitive universals; Color naming; Perceptual variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644474418     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853705774648527     Document Type: Article

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