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Causality1 on Feb 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Our Language Affects What We See

The researches seriously acted like it was a surprise that discrimination between light blue and dark blue is faster than between two shades of light blue or two shades of dark blue.

limbicsystem on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

No. They were surprised that the exact same light/dark blue discrimination was faster for Russian speakers.

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