跨生命周期的颜色沟通

Color communication is more than a naming game where the informant names each color: the color terms must also be understood by the listener. Here, we studied how participants’ productive and receptive vocabularies affect communication about color over the life span. Human participants, 3–72 years old, played a color communication game. As “senders”, participants named 15 or 30 color samples presented singly. Then, as “receiv­ers”, they selected, from the full palette of colors, the sample that corresponded to color term “messages,” which were either their own color terms (self-communication)