01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Color Vision, Hooj Choons, Espresso
9 Feb 2018
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Office hours are at noon 1 pm. Linguistic determinism language determines thought: must represent something for you to think it, no language no categories/structures no thoughts, most extreme version, but is not true. Animals can think ravens have a semblance of tom can trick other ravens. Adults who have lost language (aphasics) can think: aphasia once had normal language but something happened, like a stroke, tumor or tbi, affecting the language production/comprehension processes. We are at the mercy of a particular language sapir: his quotes run from decaf or house brew all the way down to espresso. The great eskimo vocabulary hoax geoffrey k pullman. Language lexical words meaning small versus large quantities: grammar no distinction between singular and plural, even in pronouns. 5 objects, they would put down 3 maybe 4 objects) Biophysics of color perception: colors are determined through wavelengths of light, which vary continuously, photoreceptors in the eyes differ r/g, b/y, b/w.
