The biological bases of colour categorisation: From goldfish to the human brain

K Siuda-Krzywicka, M Boros, P Bartolomeo, C Witzel - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
How are colour categories related to perception and language? To answer this question, we
review research on the neural correlates of colour categories, and categorical responses in …

Lexical color categories

DT Lindsey, AM Brown - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Color is a continuous variable, and humans can distinguish more than a million colors, yet
world color lexicons contain no more than a dozen basic color terms. It has been understood …

The Whorfian brain: Neuroscientific approaches to linguistic relativity

P Athanasopoulos, A Casaponsa - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Modern approaches to the Whorfian linguistic relativity question have reframed it from one of
whether language shapes our thinking or not, to one that tries to understand the factors that …

Unconscious effects of grammatical gender during object categorisation

B Boutonnet, P Athanasopoulos, G Thierry - Brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
Does language modulate perception and categorisation of everyday objects? Here, we
approach this question from the perspective of grammatical gender in bilinguals. We tested …

Is there a lateralized category effect for color?

C Witzel, KR Gegenfurtner - Journal of vision, 2011 - jov.arvojournals.org
According to the lateralized category effect for color, the influence of color category borders
on color perception in fast reaction time tasks is significantly stronger in the right visual field …

[HTML][HTML] Categorical facilitation with equally discriminable colors

C Witzel, KR Gegenfurtner - Journal of vision, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical
facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction …

[HTML][HTML] On the road to somewhere: Brain potentials reflect language effects on motion event perception

M Flecken, P Athanasopoulos, JR Kuipers, G Thierry - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent studies have identified neural correlates of language effects on perception in static
domains of experience such as colour and objects. The generalization of such effects to …

Seeing objects through the language glass

B Boutonnet, B Dering, N Viñas-Guasch… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Recent streams of research support the Whorfian hypothesis according to which language
affects one's perception of the world. However, studies of object categorization in different …

Language and color perception: Evidence from Mongolian and Chinese speakers

H He, J Li, Q Xiao, S Jiang, Y Yang, S Zhi - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The present research contributes to the debate in cognitive sentence on the relationship
between language and perception by comparing Mongolian and Chinese speakers' color …

Short‐term trained lexical categories produce preattentive categorical perception of color: Evidence from ERPs

W Zhong, Y Li, P Li, G Xu, L Mo - Psychophysiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The present study investigated whether short‐term trained lexical categories could produce
lateralized preattentive categorical perception (CP) of color. Participants' event‐related …