Is the way we classify colour physiologically hardwired or culturally shaped? As a new analysis comes out in favour of the former, Heidi Ledford takes a hard look at the decades-old debate.

It is essentially a ‘nature versus nurture’ argument about how different languages divide colours into categories. For instance, in English, there is a word for red and a word for purple, but is that the case in every language?

Read the briefing here.

Is the way we classify colour physiologically hardwired or culturally shaped? As a new analysis comes out in favour of the former, Heidi Ledford takes a hard look at the decades-old debate.

It is essentially a ‘nature versus nurture’ argument about how different languages divide colours into categories. For instance, in English, there is a word for red and a word for purple, but is that the case in every language?

Read the briefing here.