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“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”

PERCEPTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF COLOUR

PERCEPTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF COLOUR


Author:  S.V. Michugina

Affiliation:  Moscow city pedagogical university

Abstract
The article deals with the problem of colour nature as a complex object of investigation. Wave origin of colour, its visual perception as a way of reflection of a colour wave off some surface, psychological colour interpretation – all that is realized in conceptual modelling of colour and linguistic categorization of colour terms and attributes.

Keywords:  colour, perception, colour category, categorization

Pages:  267-272

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