“…Differences between languages in grammatical structure and range of terminology have been associated with altered perceived similarity between objects and actions, as well as to different memories of the same experience in the following domains: number systems (Gumperz & Levinson, 1997); spatial relations (Levinson, 1996;Bowerman & Choi, 2001), artifact categories (Malt & Johnson, 1998); modes of motion (Gennari, et al, 2000); time (Boroditsky, 2001); material and shape classification (Lucy, 1992); shape (Roberson, Davidoff & Shapiro, 2002) and grammatical gender (Clarke et al, 1981(Clarke et al, , 1984Sera, Berge & Pintado, 1994;Sera et al, 2001, Boroditsky, in press). Other studies have argued against the influence of linguistic differences on perceptual classification, both at the level of terminology (Munnich & Landau, 2003;Malt et al, 1999) and grammatical structure (Karmiloff-Smith, 1979; Color categories 4 Pérez-Pereira, 1991). The present study seeks to shed light on whether language and cognition are coupled or separable in the domain of color categorization and perception.…”