The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random langua

Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see-what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically identified

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribu

The Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology provides an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the concepts of color to all fields of s