Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

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 ...

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The way we commonly use color and number words in English makes it unnecessarily difficult for kids to learn the concepts Subject 046M, two years old, was seated nervously across from me at the table, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 97, No. 9 (Apr. 25, 2000), pp. 5007-5010 (4 pages) Two perceptual structures (based on colors) and one semantic ...

Lots of fancy color words come from flowers or fruits: violet, periwinkle, lavender, lilac, olive, eggplant, pumpkin, and peach, to name a few. In English, pink used to refer exclusively to a flower ...