People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more quickly. Bees have a phenomenal ability to perceive different shades of colour, and their ...

The interplay between language and colour perception has emerged as a pivotal topic in recent cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the words we use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...

It’s frustrating to leave a conversation feeling completely misunderstood. You might have even thought you were crystal clear, yet the message didn’t land the way you expected. This happens all the ...

People perceive colors categorically. But what is the role of the environment (or nature)--specifically, language--in color perception? The effects of language on the way people categorize and ...