Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 439-446

  Regier, Terry ^a   Kay, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR NAMING; COLOR PERCEPTION; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC CATEGORY; SEMANTIC DOMAINS; VISUAL FIELDS;

COLOR; COLOR VISION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

COLOR; COLOR VISION; FORCE; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; THINKING; VISUAL FIELD; WHORF HYPOTHESIS;

COLOR PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70349170106     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.07.001     Document Type: Review

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