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This gets tricky for colors because there are so many variants, you often need to choose a color phrase. The simple word “blue” only gets you into a general section of the color wheel.

Using these models, the researchers mapped the color-adjective associations ... people are able to identify some of the words that are most informative for associating colors with specific ...