Effect of bilingualism on colour perception : is categorical perception specific to each language system or altered and shared in one unified system?

• Main Author: Er, Pei Yi
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61939
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study seeks to gain a deeper understanding on how language is represented in a bilingual’s brain by investigating on colour boundaries that exist only in either language of the selected language pair. Twenty Korean-English bilinguals took part in the study and the results showed that categorica...