Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 1-9.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.01.01

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Do Lexical Categories Produce Lateralized Categorical Perception of Color?

ZHONG Weifang1, RU Taotao2   

  1. 1. Guangdong Justice Police Vocational College, Guangzhou 510520;
    2. Lab of Lighting and Physio-psychological Health, National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006
  • Published:2020-02-05

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Abstract: The present study investigated whether lexical categories could produce lateralized categorical perception (CP) of color, and whether lateralized color CP depends on learned lexical categories or color discrimination. In an experiment, four gradual colors, such as A (green), B (green), C (blue) and D (blue) were used. These colors were equated in the number of just-noticeable differences. Participants were trained to name the four colors with four meaningless syllables, and to finish a visual search task before training, after the first and the eighth training session, respectively. After training, both the within-and between-category colors became between-category colors. The data showed that:(1) participant could discriminate the four colors by their new names after the first training session, and learned the new names of the four colors after the eighth training session; (2) in the visual search task before training, there was a lateralized color CP corresponded to the green-blue categories; (3) in the visual search task after the eighth rather than the first training session, there was a lateralized color CP corresponded to the newly learned categories. These results suggested that lexical categories can produce lateralized color CP and that lateralized color CP depends on learned lexical categories rather than color discrimination.

Key words: whorf hypothesis, color categorical perception, lexical category, learned category, color discrimination

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