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SUBMITTER: Josserand M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8476573 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Josserand Mathilde M Meeussen Emma E Majid Asifa A Dediu Dan D
Scientific reports 20210927 1
Many languages express 'blue' and 'green' under an umbrella term 'grue'. To explain this variation, it has been suggested that changes in eye physiology, due to UV-light incidence, can lead to abnormalities in blue-green color perception which causes the color lexicon to adapt. Here, we apply advanced statistics on a set of 142 populations to model how different factors shape the presence of a specific term for blue. In addition, we examined if the ontogenetic effect of UV-light on color percept ...[more]