Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns

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

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2403-2407

  Baronchelli, Andrea ^a   Gong, Tao ^b   Puglisi, Andrea ^c   Loreto, Vittorio ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Computational cognitive science; Multiagent modeling; Natural categorization; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUMERICAL WORLD COLOR SURVEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77349119009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908533107     Document Type: Article

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