The essay prompt:
Choose one of the following high-impact research articles on colour categorisation and evaluate its findings in relation to the contemporary state of the perception-cognition debate. A good essay will nest the description of the reported findings within the theoretical background, covering the universalist/relativist dichotomy, and then discuss them in relation to sometimes contradictory recently published evidence and current theoretical views.
G.V. Drivonikou, P. Kay, T. Regier, R.B. Ivry, A.L. Gilbert, A. Franklin, I.R.L. Davies (2007). Further evidence that Whorfian effects are stronger in the right visual field than the left. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 (3), 1097-1102
A.L. Gilbert, T. Regier, P. Kay, R.B. Ivry (2006). Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103 (2), 489-494
E. Ozgen, I. Davies (2002). Acquisition of categorical color perception: a perceptual learning approach to the linguistic relativity hypothesis. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen., 131, 477-493
G. Thierry, P. Athanasopoulos, A. Wiggett, B. Dering, J.R. Kuipers (2009). Unconscious effects of language-specific terminology on preattentive color perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 (11), 4567-4570
J. Winawer, N. Witthoft, M.C. Frank, L. Wu, A.R. Wade, L. Boroditsky (2007). Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 (19), 7780-7785,
