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Language and Conceptual Systems Education in Math, Science, and Technology Foundations of Cognitive Science The Neural Theory of Language and Thought Perceptual Organization in Vision Metaphors in Language and Thought Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Cognition Crosslinguistic Studies of Early Language Development Understanding Explanatory Coherence Neuropsychological Studies of Mind and Brain |
The World Color SurveyThis project is headed by Professor Kay from Linguistics, with major collaboration from Brent Berlin (formerly from UCB Anthropology), William Merrifield (SIL, Dallas), and Luisa Maffi who was an ICS visiting scholar. The project is based on Kay and Berlin's previous ground-breaking work on "basic color terms" in which they found strong cross-cultural evidence for universals in color naming. Data has been gathered on how colors are named in 110 unwritten languages around the world in order to identify both universals and variations across languages. The findings thus far are closely related to theories of color processing from neurobiology. The content areas of this project include perception, learning, and language, with disciplinary contributions from linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and biology to varying degrees. (Professor Kay) This project is funded by NSF and is being conducted jointly with ICSI. |