Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors – scientists have a new theory why
- Written by Ted Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Everyone sees them all, but we don't all give them the same distinct names.lazyllama/Shutterstock.comPeople with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But human language categorizes these into a small set of words. In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown,...