A recent study by Ohio State University (USA) reveals that human beings always perceive the same colors , regardless of the place and culture in which we are immersed, and that we even name and classify them in a similar way. Specifically, in all the cultures analyzed, researchers have observed a tendency to classify hundreds of different color tones into just eight categories: red, green, yellow or orange, blue, purple, brown, pink and blue-green . Thus, they have been able to verify that between languages such as English, Zapotec or Abidji, the perception and the name of the colors are very similar. "Although culture can influence the name we give to a color, inside our brain we see the world in a very similar way," says Delwin Lindsey, co-author of the work.
However, there are exceptions where colors fall into only two categories. But even in these cases they retain a common element: all cultures group the colors that we call "cold" in one category and those that we call "warm" in another .
The results of the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , were extracted from the analysis of data collected by the World Color Survey (WCS) project, a compendium of names of colors in many languages produced along the medium century that currently brings together contributions from 2,616 people and 110 languages, mostly only spoken.
