Insights gained from naming the OSA colors

Abstract

(from the chapter) in thinking about basic colors, as these relate to the kinds of concerns that seem to motivate anthropologists, I would suggest that it would be much more useful to consider our color space than to refer to opponent-color diagrams, and that one should accept our conclusion that there are no differences between primary and derived basic colors except for the compound sensory aspect of the latter, which really does not seem to matter / I would argue that all 11 basic colors are perceptual fundamentals, and that the concept of fundamental neural responses should be expanded to include all 11 / we simply do not yet know what kind of activity in the brain generates our color sensations / I feel it reasonable to suppose that there may be 11 categorically separate varieties of activity, corresponding to each of 11 kinds of color sensations that are identified by the 11 basic color terms / consider these as the pan-human perceptual fundamentals, and to keep their fuzzy-set locations in mind when speculating about the cultural evolution of basic color terms orange and the spectral colors / color naming by colorblind Ss / color-naming experiments at University of California San Diego / choice of stimuli: the OSA (Optical Society of America) set / centroids of basic colors in the OSA space / need for bridges between certain basic colors / a missing basic color / response times / lightness locations of basic colors / some other color-naming studies at San Diego (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)