Study examines the way pre-school children identify colours
Children developing colour concepts have ‘blindness to background’ as they struggle to identify colour existing independently of objects, new research has revealed. Experts at Aberystwyth University and Newcastle University have looked at the way pre-school children identify colours. A research study conducted by Dr Catherine O’Hanlon, Lecturer in Developmental and Neurodevelopmental Psychology at Aberystwyth University, is shortly to be published in the scientific journal Developmental Science. Despite colour being an important aspect of human visual experience, it often takes toddlers many months of teaching and reinforcing before they learn to apply colour words correctly and consistently. “When it comes to colour, two to four year old children really struggle” explains Dr O’Hanlon from the University’s Department of Psychology. “The words are learned relatively late and the concepts developed even later.” Professor Jenny Read, Professor of Vision Science at the Institute of Neur...
