Proponents of a self-identified 'relativist' view of cross-language color naming have confounded two questions: (1) Is color naming largely subject to local linguistic convention? and (2) Are cross-language color naming differences reflected in comparable differences in color cognition by their speakers? The 'relativist' position holds that the correct answer to both questions is Yes, based on ...

Epilepsy surgery in the left temporal lobe is associated with a high risk of naming decline. In the present study, in 45 patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and confirmed left hemisphere language dominance, 13 (29%) patients demonstrated postoperative decrement >or=5 naming failures in the Boston Naming Test (BNT). Multivariate discriminant analysis with age at onset of epilepsy, ag...

Naming is a key issue in any distributed system. In particular, with the Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group's efforts towards openness and interoperability in Open Hypermedia Systems (OHS) resulting in the need for (globally) valid names for all types of resources the issue of naming has become increasingly important. In this position paper we examine the issues involved in naming and a pres...

The finding that naming responses can be affectively primed suggests (a) that stimulus evaluation does not depend on participants having an explicit evaluative processing goal, and (b) that the perception of an affectively polarized stimulus can result in the preactivation of memory representations of affectively related stimuli. However, in all published studies that demonstrated significant a...

An experiment is described which replicates recent name mapping work, and delves further into the detailed structure of colour naming space. Observers freely named 1044 CRT-displayed colour-background combinations, sampled regularly along the (u',v') axes of the 1976 UCS, and along a luminance axis. Three response measures - response times, confidence ratings and consistencies - were obtained. ...