Editing Language and thought (section)

===Color===
{{See also|Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate}}
Language may influence color processing. Having more names for different colors or different shades of colors makes it easier for both children and adults to recognize them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schacter|first=Daniel L.|title=Psychology Second Edition|year=2011|publisher=Worth Publishers|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4292-3719-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha/page/360 360–362]|url=https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha/page/360}}</ref> Research has found that all languages have names for black and white and that the colors defined by each language follow a certain pattern (i.e. a language with three colors also defines red; one with four defines green or yellow; and one with six defines blue, brown, and then other colors).<ref name=BCT>{{cite book|last1=Berlin|first1=Brent|last2=Kay|first2=Paul|title=Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution|date=1969|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley}}</ref>