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Color categories vary across cultures, but there are important regularities. Where do these come from? Color categories are graded and feature a focal color or prototype. In the literature, for a long time, the question pertaining to the origin of color categories was conflated with the role and nature of prototypes. This entry goes over the main answers to this question.
What Is Color Categorization and Why It Matters
Some have claimed that categories are the building blocks of cognition [1]. Our experience of the world is temporal, featuring a series of events and sensory experiences. Yet, we are able to sort and organize these sensations into groups called categories. In the case of color, we categorize color experiences on the basis of the similarity of their chromatic qualities. The way colors are categorized is not trivial. Apart from their use in...
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Jraissati, Y. (2020). Mechanisms of Color Categorization. In: Shamey, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_405-1
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