blog post #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I   --->himba tribe



-language plays a big role in seeing colors
-people have tested childrens who are just learning to talk and dont know the words for colors yet and seeing if they can spot the odd color out, they can easily.
- to us who have learned what yellow is , red , blue green, ect. we would of had a much harder time piking the color that is different.
- there was another study done in a tribal community, of about 20 people.they have different words for different colors because of their diverse language.
- these tribal people only had 4 words for the 11 colors that we have
-they put a ring of green dots on a poster and asked them to spot the odd one out. they did easliy.
-to us they would look all the same shade of green. they could do this because light green was in one catigory with light red and light purple, as for a little bit darker shade of green was in a different one of their catagorys of green orange darker red and blue.
- they next put a ring of green dots with an aparent blue dot in it, but blue and green have the same words for them, they couldnt see the odd color , to them they looked all the same.
-the part of your brain that teaches you languge also was seen to be conected to colors and how attracted you are to surtain colors.





1- how do colorblind people see the world and art?
2-even if a person has names for 12 colors , if they live in a very different enviornment will they see it differently?
3- why is that highlighter color always gets so mixed up, some people thinks its yellow some think its green.