Psychological Unique Hues of Korean Identified by Hue Scaling

Two experiments based on hue scaling were conducted to identify the psychological unique hues corresponding to the opponent colors of Hering (1878)'s theory. Recently, Kuehni (2001a) used a color-chip selection task to identify the unique hues of English speakers and found different results from those of Oh et al. (2003) and Pak et al. (2005) where similar tasks were used with Korean speakers. The present set of experiments used different experimental tasks to ascertain whether the discrepancy between previous results was caused by task differences or genuinely different psychological representations of unique hues in speakers of different languages. Experiment 1 adopted a single-hue scaling paradigm frequently used in similar studies and Experiment 2 used a double-hue scaling paradigm that reflects Hering's opponent theory. Munsell color-chips were used in both tasks and the results supported the findings of Oh et al.(2003) and Pak et al.(2005) rather than those of Kuehni (2001a). The findings suggest that differences in unique hue judgments between speakers of different languages lie at a deep representational level and are not an artefact of the experimental task methodology. Theoretical implications of discrepant psychological unique hues across speakers of different languages are discussed.

keywords: unique hues, single-hue scaling, double-hue scaling, unique hues, single-hue scaling, double-hue scaling, 고유색, 단일색상 비율평정, 이중색상 비율평정

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Vol.18 No.2

Psychological Unique Hues of Korean Identified by Hue Scaling

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The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology