Unconscious effects of language-specific terminology on preattentive color perception

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

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4567-4570

  Thierry, Guillaume ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Panos ^b   Wiggett, Alison ^a,b   Dering, Benjamin ^a   Kuipers, Jan Rouke ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cultural differences; Event related potentials linguistic relativity; Visual mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 63149129198     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811155106     Document Type: Article

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