In a Twist of Irony, Reds see More Hues of Blue

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Here's an interesting one, short and sweet - apparently Russians are able to perceive between slightly-different hues of the colour blue because their language contains more words for it.

Researchers are still trying to figure out how it works - is it that language influences perception, or does physiology influence language? No definitive proof either way as far as I can tell, but it's an interesting effect nonetheless.

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070430/full/news070430-2.html

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