Abstract: The relations of color terms and color cognition have been highlighted in the field of language’s influence on cognition. Diversities existed between different nations’ language and culture. The popular research method to investigate relations between color terms and color cognition was to utilize the diversities between nations on language and culture. There were two kinds of viewpoints included Universalism and Relativism on color cognition. The previous research showed that many paradigms included philosophy speculation, naming and computation, color classification, color memory and color searching were devoted to the question of color cognition. Based on the previous researches, color cognition’s interaction model based on three layers and six aspects was established.

Key words: color terms, color cognition, language universalism, language relativism