Newly trained lexical categories produce lateralized categorical perception of color

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

Volumn 107, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 9974-9978

  Zhou, Ke ^a   Mo, Lei ^b   Kay, Paul ^c,d   Kwok, Veronica P Y ^e,f   Ip, Tiffany N M ^e,f   Tan, Li Hai ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Category learning; Linguistic relativity; Nature versus nurture; Whorf hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953456353     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005669107     Document Type: Article

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