New Directions in Colour Studies

Name: New Directions in Colour Studies
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New Directions in Colour Studies
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
References
Abbreviations
Section 1. Theoretical issues
Illusions of colour and shadow
References
Universal trends and specific deviations
1. Introduction
2. A comparison of two language families
3. Wildcard terms
4. Discussion
References
Touchy-Feely colour
1. Introduction
2. History of an intuition
3. Secret life of an intuition
4. Touch-like Vision
5. Conclusion
References
Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman
1. Introduction
2. Juri Lotman's semiotic ideas on language
3. Very short critique of the theory of basic colour terms
4. Semiotic theory of the basic colour terms
5. Conclusions
References
Section 2. Languages of the world
Preface to Section 2
Basic colour terms of Arabic
1. Background and aims
2. Elicited lists
3. Colour naming
4. Discussion
References
Red herrings in a sea of data
1. Introduction
2. Scots and Scottish English
3. Dictionary evidence of the use of red in Scots
4. The SCOTS corpus
5. Red in SCOTS
6. Delving deeper: quantitative to qualitative
7. Red in compounds
8. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms
1. Preliminaries
2. The basic colour terms of Maltese
3. The non-basic colour system of Maltese
4. Formal aspects of Maltese colour terms
5. The evolution of blue in Arabic and Maltese
6. From brightness to hue in relation to blue in Arabic and Maltese
References
Rosa Schätze - Pink zum kaufen
1. Introduction
2. History and previous investigations
2.1 Rosa
2.2 Pink
3. Pink and rosa in magazines
3.1 A corpus study
3.2 Methodology
4. Results
4.1 Overall frequency
4.2 Objects of application
4.3 'Wrong' applications
4.4 Hyponymy relations
4.5 Scale perception
4.6 Collocations
4.7 Integration into the German language
5. Conclusion
References
Kashubian colour vocabulary
1. Introduction
2. Candidate basic colour terms in Kashubian
3. Psychological salience of Kashubian colour terms
4. Kashubian non-basic colour terms
5. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs related to the basic colour adjectives
6. A final word
References
Colour terms
1. Introduction
2. Colour terms as words
3. Colour terms as components of linguistic constructions
4. Modern Russian: Lexical development of colour terms
4.1 Objects as referents of new colour terms
4.2 Descriptive meanings of colour terms as denominal adjectives
5. Usage constraints of the emerging Russian colour terms: Driven by the noun taxonomic class
5.1 Koricnevyj: The Russian case of "browns"
5.2 Linguistic behaviour of Russian highly frequent non-basic colour terms
5.3 Linguistic behaviour of the Russian colour term 'new-comers'
6. Conclusions
References
Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blue
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Subjects
4. Stimuli
5. Results
5.1 The list task
5.2 The colour naming task
5.3 Combined analysis
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Terms for red in Central Europe
1. Introduction
2. Methods and data
3. Hungarian and Czech BCTs with emphasis on red
4. A note on etymology
5. Collocations and connotations
6. The hypothesis: An areal phenomenon in Central Europe
7. Conclusion
References
Section 3. Colour in society
Preface to Section 3
Colours in the community
1. Introduction
2. Bynames
3. Surnames
4. Scottish surnames
5. Present-day bynames
6. Colour terms
6.1 Brown
6.2 Red
6.3 Fair/Grey
6.4 Black
7. Conclusion
References
Hues and cries
1. Primary colours: Giotto's joy
2. A kind of blue
3. Colour on colour
4. Conclusion: pain in colour
References
Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies
1. Contextual relativity of colours
2. Colour appearance
2.1 Material, texture and surface
2.2 Distance
2.3 Light and shadow
2.4 Natural and artificial light
3. Colour appearance and cities' identities
References
Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature
1. Introduction
2. Heraldry and the herald
3. Colouring chivalric identity
4. Colouring identity in medieval romance
5. Conclusion
References
Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage
1. Introduction
2. Embodied color and background
2.1 Figure/Ground alignment
2.2 Vantage theory
2.3 BCTs, prototypes to polysemy
3. Study objective
4. Methodology - study tasks
4.1 Participants
4.2 Study design
4.3 Sequence and timing
5. General study results
5.1 warm/cool and light/dark compared to hue results
5.2 After-image color in relation to positive and negative assessment
5.3 General research results
6. Conclusion
References
The power of colour term precision
1. Introduction
2. Some necessary definitions
3. People's knowledge of ECT meaning
4. Lexical meaning - a cognitive linguistic perspective
5. The travelogue texts and their time
6. Some quantitative data: Colour term types and their density
7. Object domains and the precision of colour terms
8. The effects of non-basic colour terms in texts
9. Concluding discussion
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Categorical perception of colour
Preface to Section 4
Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique
1. Introduction to the debate
2. The ERP approach
2.1 Fonteneau and Davidoff (2007): Unattended colour change
2.2 Holmes et al. (2009): Attended colour change
2.3 Liu et al. (2009): Hemispheric asymmetries
2.4 Clifford et al. (2009): Infant effects
2.5 Thierry et al. (2009): Effects of colour language
3. Summary
References
Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field
1. Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Background
1.3 The current study
2. Methods
2.1 Participants
2.2 Training phase
2.3 Target detection task
3. Results
3.1 Training results
3.2 Target detection results
4. Discussion
References
Effects of stimulus range on color categorization
1. Introduction: Color categorization and range effects
2. Experiments 1a, b and c
2.1 Participants
2.2 Experiment 1a: Apparatus, stimuli and design
2.3 Experiments 1b and 1c: Apparatus, stimuli, design and procedure
2.4 Results of experiments 1a, 1b and 1c
3. Categorical responses
3.1 Main effects
3.2 Condition by stimulus interaction.
3.3 Experiment by stimulus interaction.
4. Response times
4.1 Main effect
4.2 Condition by stimulus interaction.
5. Discussion
5.1 Summary of experiments and results
5.2 Stimulus range and color categorization
References
Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision
Preface to Section 5
Colour and autism spectrum disorders
1. Background
2. The impact of colour on reading speed, visual discrimination and atypical behaviour
3. Perception and discrimination of colour in ASD
4. Conclusions
References
Red-Green dichromats' use of basic colour terms
1. Background
2. R-G dichromats' use of BCTs: Partial information
2.1 Naming of surface colour prototypes
2.2 Are people diagnosed as dichromats true dichromats?
2.3 Some methodological considerations
3. A global view of BCT use in macular dichromats
3.1 Best exemplar task results
3.2 Mapping task results
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Synaesthesia in colour
1. Introduction
2. Phenomenonology of colour synaesthesia
3. The continuity hypothesis of synaesthesia
3.1 Experiencing colours when reading
3.2 Experiencing colours from touch
4. Conclusions
References
Towards a phonetically-rich account of speech-sound colour synaesthesia
1. Introduction
2. Existence and prevalence of speech-sound colour synaesthesia in relation to grapheme-colour synaesthesia
3. Which parameters of speech are involved in speech-colour mappings?
3.1 Parameters in the analysis of speech
3.2 Vowels
3.3 Consonants and larger speech units
3.4 Voice characteristics
4. Conclusion
References
Perceiving "grue"
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
2.1 Participants, stimuli and display
2.2 Categories
2.3 Filters
2.4 Data analysis
3. Results and comparison with previous simulation experiments
3.1 Colour-naming frequency
4. Discussion
4.1 Filter results are consistent with previous investigations on aged observers
4.2 Filter simulations support the lens-brunescence hypothesis
4.3 Plausibility of lens-brunescence-effect appearance during lifetime
5. Conclusion
References
Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning
Preface to Section 6
References
Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population
1. Introduction
2. Quantitative studies of colour preference
3. A new colour preference model
4. Preference across ages
4.1 Aim of this study
4.2 Method
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Ecological valence and human color preference
1. Introduction
2. The ecological valence theory
3. The Berkeley Color Project
3.1 MRM design
3.2 Participant sample
3.3 Color sample
4. Experiment 1: BCP color preference ratings
4.1 Color preferences
4.2 Gender and expertise effects
5. Experiment 2: Weighted Affective Valence Estimates (WAVEs) of color
5.1 Estimating the WAVE
5.2 Fitting the models
References
Look and learn
1. Introduction
2. Links between preference for and acquisition of basic colours in early childhood
3. Links between preference for and naming of non-basic colours varying in saturation and hue
4. Links between preference for, attention to, memory and naming of, within-category colours varying in saturation, luminance, and hue
5. Conclusions
References
Effects of lightness and saturation on color associations in the Mexican population
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
4. Discussion
References
Colour and emotion
1. Introduction
2. Pilot experiments
3. A systematic approach to measuring associations between colours and emotions
4. Experiment 1: Pleasant colours
4.1 Methods
4.2 Results
4.3 Discussion
5. Experiment 2: Unpleasant colours
5.1 Methods
5.2 Results
5.3 Discussion
6. Experiment 3: Mood-enhancing colours
6.1 Methods
6.2 Results
6.3 Discussion
7. Experiment 4: Calming colours
7.1 Methods
7.2 Results
7.3 Discussion
8. Results summary
9. General discussion
9.1 Results from other studies
10. The basis of colour-emotion associations
10.1 Stereotypical associations
10.2 Personal associations
10.3 Non-visual responses
11. Some final thoughts
Acknowledgements
References
Colors and color adjectives in the cortex
1. Introduction
2. Color terms and the brain
3. The proposed model
4. Experiments and results
5. Conclusions
References
Section 7. Colour vision science
Preface to Section 7
Chromatic perceptual learning
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Participants
2.2 Apparatus and stimuli
2.3 Design
2.4 Procedure
3. Results
3.1 Transfer across location
3.2 Transfer across colour
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Unique hues
1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1: Behavioural unique hue settings
2.1 Apparatus and procedure
2.2 Results
3. Experiment 2: Brain activations in response to colour stimuli
3.1 Participants
3.2 Experimental design and stimuli
3.3 fMRI analysis
3.4 Pattern Classification Results
3.5 Correlation results in LGN and V1
4. Discussion
References
A short note on visual balance judgements as a tool for colour appearance matching
References
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