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Colour Categories in Language and Thought| old_uid | 10367 |
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| title | Colour Categories in Language and Thought |
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| start_date | 2011/11/14 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h30 |
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| online | no |
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| details | Invitée par l'équipe Perception-Action |
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| summary | Although the colour spectrum is physically continuous, colour categories are present in both language (i.e., colour terms) and thought (e.g., categorical perception of colour). In this talk, I will outline a series of developmental studies that investigate the origin of colour categories. I will present converging behavioural and electrophysiological evidence that infants respond categorically to colour. I will also present evidence that colour categories are lateralized to the right hemisphere of the infant brain, and appear to switch to the left hemisphere when colour terms are learnt. The findings will be related to fundamental issues in the cognitive sciences such as: i) how and when categories form; ii) the relationship between categories in language and thought; and iii) how categories are expressed in the brain. |
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| responsibles | Rämä |
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