Blind people and colour perception

Kim and colleagues determined that “congenitally blind and sighted individuals share in-depth understanding of object colour. Blind and sighted people share similar intuitions about which objects will have consistent colours, make similar predictions for novel objects, and give similar explanations. Living among people who talk about colour is sufficient for colour understanding, highlighting the efficiency of linguistic communication as a source of knowledge.. . . People develop intuitive and inferentially rich ‘theories’ of colour regardless of visual experience.” Judy Kim,…

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