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Long form articles like this ought to contain summery! infants were quicker to recognize a color from a new category if it appeared in their left visual field,
by sytelus 7y ago
Long form articles like this ought to contain summery!
infants were quicker to recognize a color from a new category if it appeared in their left visual field, which sends inputs to the right hemisphere of the brain. Adults, on the other hand, were quicker to recognize a new color category if it appeared in their right visual field, which corresponds to the left hemisphere, where the language centers reside.
- ianai 7y agoOk how does that translate to everyone saying red for the color? I’m confused as to what they’re trying to communicate from the title.
- resoluteteeth 7y agoThe title doesn't mean that the English word "red" means red in almost every language. It means that the word people would use to describe what we would call red in each language means pretty much the same range of colors (which isn't true for other colors).
- input_sh 7y agoColours don't translate nicely across languages. Sometimes, blue and green are different shades of the same colour, sometimes light blue and dark blue are two different colours, some languages consider pink to just be lighter red etc. So, the title claims that the colour red is always red, regardless of the language.
- tempguy9999 7y ago> sometimes light blue and dark blue are two different colours I believe it's so in russian > some languages consider pink to just be lighter red This is interesting. Here in the UK pink is generally described and accepted as light red, but I've always considered it to be a separate colour, and I met someone who mentioned he though the same, so it's not just me. There's light red but to my eyes that is qualitatively different to this https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/shocking-pink?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU0O2n96rlAhVISsAKHen8ALMQ9QEwAHoECAUQBA https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/shock... Any other views? Perhaps someone with knowledge of chromatics can better resolve the question. thanks
- didgeoridoo 7y agoYou’re articulating the difference between “pink” (a red tint, i.e. red mixed with white) and “hot pink” or “magenta”, the fully-saturated midpoint between red and purple.
- tempguy9999 7y agoWell that's interesting. I can see that now. But looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_pink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_pink it appears to lump your magenta (red/purple) into the same category as red/white. So really we've got 2 categories with the same name of 'pink'? 2 different things?
- didgeoridoo 7y agoHere’s a more comprehensive, if somewhat convoluted, explanation: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-pink-and-magenta https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-pink-an... “Pink and magenta have the same hue. What distinction there is to be found between magenta and pink lies along other axes than that of hue [i.e. saturation and value]. All pinks are magenta and all magentas are purple, and by extension, pink is a purple. However, it does not work the other direction: it does not mean that all purples are magenta nor that all magentas are pink, let alone that all purples are pink.” (Visit the link for a more detailed picture of the differences)
- mellosouls 7y agoI think the title is pretty self explanatory as to the questiom the article intends to investigate; and if it summarised the findings it might undermine the readers motivation to read further.