Saunders B A, van Brakel J
Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Behav Brain Sci. 1997 Jun;20(2):167-79; discussion 179-228.
In this target article the following hypotheses are discussed: (1) Colour is autonomous: a perceptuolinguistic and behavioural universal. (2) It is completely described by three independent attributes: hue, brightness, and saturation: (3) Phenomenologically and psychophysically there are four unique hues: red, green, blue, and yellow; (4) The unique hues are underpinned by two opponent psychophysical and/or neuronal channels: red/green, blue/yellow. The relevant literature is reviewed. We conclude: (i) Psychophysics and neurophysiology fail to set nontrivial constraints on colour categorization. (ii) Linguistic evidence provides no grounds for the universality of basic colour categories. (iii) Neither the opponent hues red/green, blue/yellow nor hue, brightness, and saturation are intrinsic to a universal concept of colour. (iv) Colour is not autonomous.
在这篇目标文章中，讨论了以下假设：（1）颜色是自主的：一种感知语言和行为的共性。（2）它由三个独立属性完全描述：色调、明度和饱和度。（3）从现象学和心理物理学角度来看，有四种独特的色调：红、绿、蓝和黄。（4）这些独特的色调由两个对立的心理物理和/或神经通道支撑：红/绿、蓝/黄。对相关文献进行了综述。我们得出以下结论：（i）心理物理学和神经生理学未能对颜色分类设定非平凡的限制。（ii）语言证据无法为基本颜色类别的普遍性提供依据。（iii）对立色调红/绿、蓝/黄以及色调、明度和饱和度都并非颜色普遍概念所固有的。（iv）颜色不是自主的。
