Event overview
Christoph Witzle (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) discusses his work investigating how linguistic colour categories may be related to colour perception.
4pm-5pm Wednesday 9 November 2016
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London
Speaker: Christoph Witzel, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Colour categorisation has been the prime example used to investigate the relationship between perception and language. By now, the perspective on this theme has developed from a simple contrast between nature and nurture towards a focus on the complex interplay between perception, culture, and ecology. However, it is still an open question whether there is a perceptual counterpart of linguistic colour categories. In an extensive series of studies, we investigated different ways in which linguistic colour categories may be related to colour perception to give an answer to this question.
BIOGRAPHY: Christoph Witzel obtained a university degree in psychology and another one in political science and cultural anthropology from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did his PhD in Experimental Psychology at Gießen University in Germany, then a postdoc at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK and at the Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France. Now, he is back for a postdoc at Gießen University. Christoph’s research focuses on colour vision and extends to other topics, such as Synaesthesia and Sensory Substitution (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-2420).
This lecture is part of the Whitehead lecture series in cognition, computation and culture.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Nov 2016 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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