New evidence for infant colour categories

Franklin, A and Davies, IRL (2004) New evidence for infant colour categories British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22. pp. 349-377.

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Abstract

Bornstein, Kessen, and Weiskopf (1976) reported that pre-linguistic infants perceive colour categorically for primary boundaries: Following habituation, dishabituation only occurred if the test stimulus was from a different adult category to the original. Here, we replicated this important study and extended it to include secondary boundaries, with a crucial modification: The separations between habituated and novel stimuli were equated in a perceptually uniform metric (Munsell), rather than in wavelength. Experiment 1 found Categorical Perception and no within-category novelty preference for primary boundary blue-green and secondary boundary blue-purple. Experiment 2 replicated the categorical effect for blue-purple and found no within-category novelty preference with increased stimulus separation. Experiment 3 showed category effects for a lightness/saturation boundary, pink-red. Novelty preference requires a categorical difference between the habituated and novel stimulus. The implications for the origin of linguistic colour categories are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Surrey research (other units)
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Franklin, A a.franklin@surrey.ac.uk Davies, IRL i.davies@surrey.ac.uk
Date :	2004
Uncontrolled Keywords :	sapir-whorf hypothesis; pop-out; vision; perception; hue; discrimination; similarity; memory; space; life
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	17 May 2017 09:08
Last Modified :	24 Jan 2020 16:06
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/822407

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