Hi,
Andreas Engström <engan@innovative.se> writes:
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Is there any proof for some built-in preference in = our brains to
make distinctions between separate colours at specific (as it seems, =
rather arbitrary) wavelengths
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Well, I might be referencing the wrong book here, but I seem to remember that _Women, Fire and Dangerous Things_ (what cetegories reveal about the mind) had something to say about colours, and the language we use to describe them (is that right Eva?). If I remember correctly, George Lakoff was making a point about how, even though different cultures divide the spectrum differently, the same "examplar"[1] colours (those colours which are the "best" example of each colour category) are universal, and basically depend only on the physical hardware of our eyes.
ERiC
[1] "examplar" is not the word he used, he had a specialized term denoting that phenomena for categories. Damned if I can remember what that term was...