Cross-cultural research on color names and color perception has shown that:
A) people in remote, isolated areas perceive colors differently from people in more populated areas, and they have different systems for classifying colors in the languages they speak.
B) speakers of languages that do not have a written form classify and perceive colors in a way that is fundamentally different from that of speakers of written languages.
C) although color names may vary, color perception does not appear to depend on the language used and is much the same in all cultures studied.
D) color perception appears to depend on the language used, and these variations in color perception have been found in all cultures studied.

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Cross-cultural research has found that although color names may differ across cultures and languages, color perception itself appears to be consistent across different cultures. This suggests that there may be a biological basis for color perception that is independent of language and cultural influences.

Cross-Cultural Research on Color Names and Color Perception Has Shown