There are semantic universals in the domain of color; i.e. there are constraints on the types of possible basic color lexicons. These constraints arise from the structure and function of the visual ...

Update: This post was an Editor's pick by Cristy Gelling at Science Seeker, and was included in Bora Zivkovic's top 10 science blog posts of the week. Lately, I've got colors on the brain. In part I ...

Berlin and Kay's justifications for their widely discussed notion "basic color term" are explored. It is argued that Berlin and Kay's criteria for defining basic color term pose insoluable problems ...