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Colour Categories in Infancy and Early Childhood| old_uid | 5765 |
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| title | Colour Categories in Infancy and Early Childhood |
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| start_date | 2008/12/03 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The origin and nature of colour categories in language and cognition has been the concern of researchers from a range of disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics and philosophy for many decades. One major issue is whether the colour spectrum is arbitrarily carved up into categories, or whether there are universal constraints on where these categories form. In support of the argument that there are constraints on how language categorises colour, there is converging evidence for categorical responding to colour in pre-linguistic infants. During this talk I will present both behavioural and neuro-physiological evidence for categorical responding to colour in infancy. I will also present a series of studies that have investigated how colour categories are lateralised in the human brain across development. This research finds a right–to-left hemisphere switch in categorical perception of colour that occurs around the time of colour term acquisition. Implications for the debate about the interaction between perceptual and linguistic colour categories are discussed. The findings are also related to the wider debate about the interaction of language and cognition across development. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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