Try to imagine reddish green — not the dull brown you get when you mix the two pigments together, but rather a color that is somewhat like red and somewhat like green. Or, instead, try to picture ...

This segment discusses the importance of selecting rich and specific vocabulary to be able to best communicate ideas. Students analyze how language functions in different contexts. Students determine ...

In a new study, biology and psychology researchers show how existing color vocabularies constrain future options for efficient color vocabularies. Suppose two speakers of the same language are playing ...

When we open our eyes, a myriad of colors immediately appear before us. But they are not merely a decoration of our visual world; they enable us to identify objects, materials, and substances in our ...

I knew there would be an argument. The room had gone eerily quiet. "Isn't it about time," my partner began, "that we ...

Color plays an important role in conveying visual information. For example, color can help the observer find an object in a cluttered environment. Although the human eye can distinguish millions of ...

Since the first color TV signals were broadcast, over 50 years ago, there have been shockingly few advancements. Thanks to limited bandwidth, legacy standards and the limitations of ancient CRT ...

Color plays an important role in conveying visual information, but the language we use to express what we see is limited. Recent studies show that color terms used in Japanese also change over time.

Suppose two speakers of the same language are playing a guessing game where each has the same color swatches, and Player 1 tries to get Player 2 to guess a hue by naming the color. If the second ...