Author:
Saunders B. A. C.,van Brakel J.
Abstract
In this target article the following hypotheses are discussed:
(1) Colour is autonomous: a perceptuolinguistic and behavioural
universal. (2) It is completely described by three independent
attributes: hue, brightness, and saturation: (3) Phenomenologically
and psychophysically there are four unique hues: red, green, blue,
and yellow; (4) The unique hues are underpinned by two opponent
psychophysical and/or neuronal channels: red/green, blue/yellow.
The relevant literature is reviewed. We conclude: (i) Psychophysics
and neurophysiology fail to set nontrivial constraints on colour
categorization. (ii) Linguistic evidence provides no grounds for the
universality of basic colour categories. (iii) Neither the opponent
hues red/green, blue/yellow nor hue, brightness, and saturation
are intrinsic to a universal concept of colour. (iv) Colour is not
autonomous.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Behavioral Neuroscience,Physiology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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