Their findings, published in Communications Psychology, suggest that color-adjective associations are rooted in the structure of language itself and are thus not only learned through experience.

The frontal lobe of the brain is vital to human consciousness, as well as functions that appear uniquely human, such as spoken language. Frontal lobe damage can lead to a wide variety of symptoms ...

a structure found deep in the brain. They describe their findings in Nature Human Behaviour on March 15. To better understand why the language impairments occur, the researchers analyzed the ...