{"id":212694,"date":"2025-04-29T01:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/language-structure-shapes-color-adjective-links-even-for-people-born-blind-study-reveals"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:34:53","slug":"language-structure-shapes-color-adjective-links-even-for-people-born-blind-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/language-structure-shapes-color-adjective-links-even-for-people-born-blind-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Language structure shapes color-adjective links even for people born blind, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/language-structure-shapes-color-adjective-links-even-for-people-born-blind-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, red and orange are typically associated with words such as \u201chot\u201d or \u201cwarm,\u201d blue with \u201ccool\u201d or \u201ccold,\u201d and white with \u201cclean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, some past psychology studies have shown that even if some of these associations arise from people\u2019s direct experience of seeing colors in the world around them, many people who were born blind still make similar color-adjective associations. The processes underpinning the formation of associations between colors and specific adjectives have not yet been fully elucidated.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently carried out a study to further investigate how language contributes to how we learn about color, using mathematical and computational tools, including Open AI\u2019s GPT-4 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/large+language+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large language model<\/a> (LLM). Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44271-025-00230-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Psychology<\/i>, suggest that color-adjective associations are rooted in the structure of language itself and are thus not only learned through experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are known to make mental associations between various real-world stimuli and concepts, including colors. For example, red and orange are typically associated with words such as \u201chot\u201d or \u201cwarm,\u201d blue with \u201ccool\u201d or \u201ccold,\u201d and white with \u201cclean.\u201d Interestingly, some past psychology studies have shown that even if some of these associations arise from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}