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I don't experience an internal monologue and don't think of any words at all when looking at colors, yet I have a very good ability to differentiate between sub
by RoyalHenOil 3y ago
I don't experience an internal monologue and don't think of any words at all when looking at colors, yet I have a very good ability to differentiate between subtle hue variants (based on tests I have taken that test exactly this).
If it's true that language affects ability to differentiate hues (I am somewhat skeptical, but certainly open to the possibility), then it seems to me that maybe language just muddies our natural ability. In other words, thinking about the word "blue" might cause you to artificially group colors together that you wouldn't otherwise group.
- ted_bunny 3y agoMaybe it's less about ability to distinguish, and more about... readiness to do so? I'm not sure how to phrase it.
- wilg 3y agoI don't think 99%+ of people "think of words when looking at colors" unless they have some reason to.
- unclenoriega 3y agoI want to be clear, it's a small difference in initial ability to distinguish certain colors. If you've spent your whole life dividing colors a certain way, it's a little easier for you to distinguish colors that are on different sides of that boundary.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoSo it sounds like the less you grow up talking about colors, the better you are at observing them? If so, maybe we do our children a disservice for teaching them color words.