The language of color

Cognitive scientists from MIT and elsewhere have found that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones. (Learn more: news.mit.edu/2017/analyzing-la...)
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[@pandorawang2200]

So, it means the adjective words we use in normal life which we use to discribe our feelings are also lack of accuracy, such as sad and happy, lack of words to describe how sad it is and how happy we are, which in turn lead to the differences between the people who describe it and the people who listen to it. How to fix it?

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NIce and informative video, cut the terrible background music though! Why does it always have to sound dramatic?

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Thanks for sharing this.

[@Felenari]

Good watch. Thank you.

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I like Prof. Gibson said "maybe" @2:45 😉

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[@verioffkin]

I think you're on the wrong way. Green color means different in West and Near East, white color in West means purity, in East death, orange in West means attention, in China it's highest authority, emperor, and other things like that.
I think color's names are based not on sensational, sensual things but on cultural taboos. These taboos are still like a threads in cloths of national cultures, you can't ignore, erase, change them bloodless.

[@TheKh65]

ytrnjdikzgt interesting claim

[@verioffkin]

I'm just guessing, not any claims, rather sharring my feelings about words, definitions related to color as notion, and its cultural meaning... I think it's much more deeper than some sort of signal system though, and maybe relates to things we don't quite understand yet, who knows.

[@abhisheksinghasia]

Very true that we want to talk about objects and not background. As, objects tend to be in warm colours range we tend to miss cool color background and further cool color cars, cool color dresses say white cars or black cars..... isn't it?
Have an egale's eye for study purpose of AI while watching a movie and a natural world activities; you will perceive the good difference. I believe it is also because people tend to walk without looking towards sky (blue, black, white, brown sometimes yellow-red and rainbow) in general. Aeroplanes fly !😊
Don't you think natural background colours are white (sky), blue (sky), black (sky), but green plants leaves (On earth), again white snows on earth but brownies earth almost everywhere.... white colour top-to-bottom is white sky to white snow. Blue color top to bottom is blue sky to blue water. Black and white cloud to black and white soil....somewhere snow covered land and somewhere snow uncovered land. Top-down and Bottom-up approach 👍💝

[@koushikstructure]

So nice

[@h7opolo]

An interesting hypothesis but I'm not convinced of anything. I don't care to address my reservations in detail here.

[@arielmetamorphosis]

Wow , I wish I could have the money pouring out of my pockets to go study colors into south america!

[@tercuskuhnsis8854]

Philosophy

[@mwmattioli]

I wonder if particular variants of color-blindness affect how the language of color is formed... How would a culture demarcate hues differently if 50% have some form of color blindness? Further, how would a strongly patriarchal society label colors differently, as the social power would lie in those significantly more likely to be some sort of color-blind? What is Love? Baby

[@apothecaryjohn]

This is discriminatory against persons who cannot see all colour.

[@azkayasmin4321]

not really, they just do an observation about why some of the people cannot see all the colours. is it wrong to do it for science?

[@plasticscally8409]

Discrimination against who now? Did you watch the video? It's more about how the cognitive perception of colour is dependent on the local language. You knobhead.

[@apothecaryjohn]

joshua langley You are correct, sir.

[@nobocks]

Artificial color is old because painting is old. It's not all about tech.