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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: seez 18 March 2014 10:12AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 March 2014 05:30:56PM 4 points [-]

Regarding color you might want to have a look at the as usual funny and detailed XKCD color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Comment author: adam_strandberg 19 March 2014 10:46:32PM 2 points [-]

Even better than that is this series of blog posts, which talks about color identification across languages, the way that color-space is in a sense "optimally" divided by basic color words, and how children develop a sense for naming colors:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/