On the origin of the hierarchy of color names

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

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6819-6824

  Loreto, Vittorio ^a,b   Mukherjee, Animesh ^b,c   Tria, Francesca ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Category game; Color hierarchy; Complex systems; Computational cognitive science; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATURITY; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COLOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860819374     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113347109     Document Type: Article

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