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galen · 3644 days ago · link · · parent · post: If We Have No Word for a Colour, Can We See It? Researchers Say No.
Preliminary looking at the shades of green image suggests to me that I can distinguish in the moment between the shades, but have trouble remembering which shades go where since I don't have a linguistic marker to attach to each distinct perception. It seems to me this is perhaps the most likely explanation: that words for different colors help us keep them separate in our memories (or perhaps just in our brains) but don't affect our actual responses to stimuli.