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loveme25

大家帮忙看看，下面这两段说的不是矛盾的么？Russian people到底是擅长辨别深浅还是辨别颜色啊？看不太懂
The results were clear. Russian speakers, although slower overall, were consistently faster at identifying color differences that fell into the two different categories than they were at identifying differences between colors that would be named using the same term. English speakers had no such advantage. This is not simply a matter of perception, as when English speakers were asked to place the border between light and dark blue, they placed it at the same point in the spectrum as the Russian speakers placed the border between their two terms.
This advantage appeared to rely on the brain's language centers. When presented with a distracting visual task, the difference in the Russian speakers' scores persisted. But when a verbal distraction was included, the Russians' advantage vanished: it actually became harder for them to distinguish colors that fell into the two different categories than it was for them to notice differences within a category.

大荣

lz,我找到个更清晰版本的背景。

The Russian language makes an obligatory distinction between light blue, pronounced "goluboy", and dark blue, pronounced "siniy". Jonathan Winawer at MIT in the US and colleagues set out to determine whether this linguistic distinction influences colour perception.

Subjects completed two types of tests: in one version, the three squares were of a similar shade, whereas the other test involved one square that was a markedly different shade - for example, distinguishing a dark blue from a light blue.
- English speakers were no better at distinguishing between dark and light blues than they were at telling apart two blues of a similar shade.
- Russian speakers, by comparison, were 10% faster at distinguishing between light (goluboy) blues and dark (siniy) blues than at discriminating between blues within the same shade category.

loveme25

感谢大荣，这篇清楚多啦~~！！

greekhero

discriminating between blues within the same shade category 还有 telling apart two blues of a similar shade 这个是什么意思啊？ 不是很明白求指点，
这个试验第一部分我看懂了，第一部是不是说，三个方块有两个颜色浅或淡，让他们区分，但是第二部分不明白 既然是similar shade 或者within the same shade category ，那要他们区别什么呢？ 求教求教～～～～