Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1999 - Volume 22, Issue 06  


Open Peer Commentary
Palmer: Color and consciousness

One basic or two? A rhapsody in blue

Galina V. Paramei a1p1
a1 Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

The controversial status of goluboi as a basic color term is discussed. Fuzzy logic alone cannot reliably attribute basic status to goluboi. Recent linguistic studies support a single basic blue category. Psychophysical data on color-space distances and color naming are currently ambiguous in this regard.


Correspondence:
p1 Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universität Dortmund, 44139 Dortmund, Germany paramei@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de www.ifado.de/projekt-06/