Russian Blues Reveal Effects of Language on Color Discrimination
We found that Russian speakers were faster to discriminate two colors when they fell into different linguistic categories in Russian than when they were from the same linguistic category.
Moreover, this category advantage was eliminated by a verbal, but not a spatial, dual task.These results demonstrate that (i) categories in language affect performance on simple perceptual color tasks and (ii) the effect of language is online (and can be disrupted by verbal interference).Source link