Progress in Colour Studies
Volume II. Psychological aspects
Published on 30. November 2006
Book
Hardback
237 pages
978-90-272-3240-3 (ISBN)
Description
The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts. Along with its companion volume, Progress in Colour Studies 1: Language and Culture, this book offers a fascinating insight into current issues and research into colour. Most of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled 'Progress in Colour Studies' held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. Some additional invited papers are included from investigators exploring new and exciting avenues of colour research. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, and some new research findings are reported. This volume, principally psychological in content, focuses on the development of colour perception and colour language, from infancy into adulthood, across a diverse range of cultures, including English, Himba, Chinese, and Mexican, and on the intriguing yet perplexing condition of synaesthesia, thus bridging research from the physiology, psychology and anthropology of colour.
Reviews / Votes
I learned much from this volume. The field of colour is much greater than that to which I pay the most attention. Only through meetings like PICS and volumes like this can we hope to learn the different points of views of researchers from other disciplines and provide a more integrated understanding of colour as part of our psyche and a part of our world. -- Ken Knoblauch, 2006More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3240-3 (9789027232403)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944-2004: An Appreciation (by MacKeigan, Terri); 3. Abbreviations; 4. Section 1: Theoretical approaches; 5. Explanation(s) and the patterning of basic colour words across languages and speakers (by Dedrick, Don); 6. Re-assessing perceptual diagnostics for observers with diverse retinal photopigment genotypes (by Jameson, Kimberly A.); 7. Hue categorization and color naming: Physics to sensation to perception (by Bornstein, Marc H.); 8. Section 2: Developmental and cultural aspects; 9. Infant colour perception and discrete trial preferential looking paradigms (by Teller, Davida Y.); 10. The rivalry between colour and spatial attributes in infant response to the visual field (by Catherwood, Di); 11. Converging evidence for pre-linguistic colour categorization (by Franklin, Anna); 12. Colour categorization in preschoolers (by Bonnardel, Valererie); 13. The developmental acquisition of basic colour terms (by Pitchford, Nicola); 14. Colour categories and category acquisition in Himba and English (by Roberson, Debi); 15. Sex differences in colour preference (by Ling, Zhu); 16. Section 3: Cognitive and emotional aspects; 17. Colour associations in the Mexican university population (by Prado-Leon, Lilia Roselia); 18. Synaesthesia, neurology and language (by Kay, Christian); 19. Author index; 20. Subject index