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language impairment and colour categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

jules davidoff
Affiliation:
department of psychology, goldsmiths' college, london, united kingdompss01jd@gold.ac.uk
claudio luzzatti
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university of milan, bicocca, italyclaudio.luzzatti@unimib.it

Abstract

goldstein (1948) reported multiple cases of failure to categorise colours in patients that he termed amnesic or anomic aphasics. these patients have a particular difficulty in producing perceptual categories in the absence of other aphasic impairments. we hold that neuropsychological evidence supports the view that the task of colour categorisation is logically impossible without labels.

Type
open peer commentary
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press

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