Cognition and Color Reading Group (Fall 2009)




Ground Rules: Participants can volunteer to lead weekly discussions of published articles. Choice of article is up to the discussion leader, and could include any of those listed below, or any other article focusing on higher-order aspects of color processing (featuring front-end processing issues only when they bear on phenomenology, please). Ideally discussion leaders assume the usual responsibility of summarizing the key findings and the points of interest of an article, and bring in any relevant new results from the literature that bear on the study.

Meeting Time and Place: Time is every Friday from Noon till 1:00 (we have the room reserved till 1:30, but most people will probably want to limit it to a one-hour slot). Place is SSPA 2142, which is the small seminar room across from Kim Romney's office.

Choosing a Date to Lead Discussion: Email Kimberly (kjameson@uci.edu) to schedule a discussion date and choose an article. Article links provided below indicate unassigned dates (as "Open") which will be updated as the schedule fills up.


Please encourage others (students, faculty, etc.) to attend who might find this interesting -- The more, the merrier.


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No Meeting September 25th.


No Meeting October 2th.


No Meeting October 9th.


Download .pdf file for October 16th meeting (Kim)

Romney (2009). Modeling color with and without an observer. Submitted Manuscript.

Download supplemental .pdf file

MacAdam (1938). Photometric Relationships Between Complementary Colors. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 28.


Download .pdf file for October 23rd meeting (Kim)

Romney & Chiao (2009). Modeling trichromatic color appearance with only two spectrally distinct photopigments. Submitted Manuscript.

Download supplemental .pdf file

Neitz, Neitz, He & Shevell. (1999). Trichromatic color vision with only two spectrally distinct photopigments. Nature Neuroscience, 2.


Download .pdf file for October 30th meeting (Jack)

Manning & Brainard. (2009). Optimal design of photoreceptor mosaics: Why we do not see color at night. Visual Neuroscience, 26.


No Meeting on November 6th


No Meeting November 13th.


Download .pdf file for November 20th meeting (Wayne):

Schultz, Doerschner & Maloney. (2006). Color constancy and hue scaling. Journal of Vision 6, 1102–1116.


No Meeting November 27th -- Thanksgiving Holiday.


Download .pdf file (with active links to online-supplement material) for December 4th meeting (Kimberly):

Jameson. (2009). Human potential for tetrachromacy. Glimpse Journal: The art + science of seeing, vol. 2.3, Autumn, 2009, Color Issue, pp. 82-91.

Alternatively accessible at the GlimpseJournal.com website.

Download 30mb .pdf file for entire GlimpseJournal Color Issue 2.3

Note: The entire issue (only available by the link above for a couple days) is password protected for your personal/educational use in this reading group and is not to be distributed. Email me for information to access the entire issue.


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