Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2010-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1073/pnas.0908533107 (literal)
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  • Andrea Baronchelli (a); Tao Gong (b); Andrea Puglisi (c,d); Vittorio Loreto (d,e) (2010)
    Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns
    in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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  • Andrea Baronchelli (a); Tao Gong (b); Andrea Puglisi (c,d); Vittorio Loreto (d,e) (literal)
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  • 2403 (literal)
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  • With Supporting Information. Selected as a CNR-Highlight 2009-2010. (literal)
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  • http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/01/22/0908533107.abstract (literal)
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  • 107 (literal)
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  • fasc.(6). National Academy of Sciences. (literal)
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  • (a) Departament de Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain; (b) Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; (c) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia c/o, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy; (d) Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy; and (e) Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Torino, Italy (literal)
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  • Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns (literal)
Abstract
  • The empirical evidence that human color categorization exhibits some universal patterns beyond superficial discrepancies across different cultures is a major breakthrough in cognitive science. As observed in the World Color Survey (WCS), indeed, any two groups of individuals develop quite different categorization patterns, but some universal properties can be identified by a statistical analysis over a large number of populations. Here, we reproduce the WCS in a numerical model in which different populations develop independently their own categorization systems by playing elementary language games. We find that a simple perceptual constraint shared by all humans, namely the human Just Noticeable Difference (JND), is sufficient to trigger the emergence of universal patterns that unconstrained cultural interaction fails to produce. We test the results of our experiment against real data by performing the same statistical analysis proposed to quantify the universal tendencies shown in the WCS [Kay P & Regier T. (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 9085-9089], and obtain an excellent quantitative agreement. This work confirms that synthetic modeling has nowadays reached the maturity to contribute significantly to the ongoing debate in cognitive science. (literal)
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