Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition

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

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18221-18225

  Franklin, A ^a   Drivonikou, G V ^a   Clifford, A ^a   Kay, P ^b,c   Regier, T ^d   Davies, I R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Color perception; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TODDLER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 57449121623     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809952105     Document Type: Article

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