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ON THE RELATION BETWEEN UP-DATED COLOUR VISION AND ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE THROUGH THE WARM-COLD COLOUR OPPOSITION
The present paper deals with the conjunctions and interactions between various disciplines, which explore human visual response and the semantics of colour, based on the language representation which operates on the higher levels in the brain than neural, non-language visual representation. To date, neurophysiologic research has not confirmed the existence of certain predicted mechanisms, so that a revision of visual modelling imposed. A question arises of the consequences for interdisciplinary conjunctions, involving the Vision Science and Lighting Engineering on one side, and Architecture with its allied fields on the other side. A literature review shows that in some cases the problems faced by non-language representation are not transferred to language representation, because of differences in processing. However, a team of visual experts has shown that a plethora of physiological effects, identified by traditional visual research at the neural (non-language level), which are not involved in the perturbations of the visual system, are successfully linked to language representation. In particular, this link, which is mediated by the environment (the favoured explanation after the influence of daylight, which lacks predictable neural mechanisms), explains the fact, reported but not explained in classical text books, that colour appearance can be communicated to others exclusively through language.