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Roberson, Debi; Davidoff, Jules; Davies, Ian R. L.; Shapiro, Laura R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
This study unites investigations into the linguistic relativity of color categories with research on children's category acquisition. Naming, comprehension, and memory for colors were tracked in 2 populations over a 3-year period. Children from a seminomadic equatorial African culture, whose language contains 5 color terms, were compared with a…
Descriptors: Memory, Investigations, African Culture, Visual Environment