Language, learning, and color perception

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 95-98

  Özgen, Emre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Color vision; Linguistic relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942687790     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00282.x     Document Type: Article

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