Color Categorization Independent of Color Naming

And when asked to find the green square in a field of different shades of blue, the members of those tribes do fairly poorly, as most of us would be asked to pick out a particular shade of blue from other shades of blue.

interesting.. I thought the "rainbow" was universal. ROYGBIV

That is, they don't just use one word for both colors, they seem to actually see green as just a shade of blue.

hmmm. there are discrete values for visible light - nanometer wavelength

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

maybe they don't have words for it, but their eyes should be capable of distinguishing

485-500 nm = cyan

500-565 nm = green

green square in a field of different shades of blue

wonder if they'd do better if you gave them a green one and find the ones that match... instead of "find the green ones. "

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