I scored 7.
Anyway, the question about colour perception. I read an article about how people who speak different languages perceive colours differently, but it isn't that they see it in another colour, it's that they're not as good at detecting ranges that speakers of other languages are. For example, japanese use the same word for blue and green, so it's harder for them to differentiate between the two. http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-lan...ption.html Here's an article on another language vs english speaker. The one I read is more in depth but it was in my psych textbook I think, and I sold it.
Although I think it can be argued that because a certain people detect colours differently, their language address colours differently? Not too sure.
in terms of physiology of the eyes, we can differentiate some colours better than others. For example green and red is easier to differentiate than blue and green. And our eyes read faster if the text is black against a while background. But yea ... don't know why we see colours the way we do.
Anyway, the question about colour perception. I read an article about how people who speak different languages perceive colours differently, but it isn't that they see it in another colour, it's that they're not as good at detecting ranges that speakers of other languages are. For example, japanese use the same word for blue and green, so it's harder for them to differentiate between the two. http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-lan...ption.html Here's an article on another language vs english speaker. The one I read is more in depth but it was in my psych textbook I think, and I sold it.
Although I think it can be argued that because a certain people detect colours differently, their language address colours differently? Not too sure.
in terms of physiology of the eyes, we can differentiate some colours better than others. For example green and red is easier to differentiate than blue and green. And our eyes read faster if the text is black against a while background. But yea ... don't know why we see colours the way we do.
