Semantic and perceptual representations of color: Evidence of a shared color-naming function

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 427-486

  Sayim, Bilge ^a   Jameson, Kimberly A ^b,c   Alvarado, Nancy ^d   Szeszel, Monika K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive representation; Color categorization; Color naming; Cross cultural color naming

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148956865     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853705774648509     Document Type: Article

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