Cognition and Color Reading Group (Spring 2008)


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 on April 4th.


Download .pdf file for April 11th meeting (Kimberly):

Multidimensional scaling reveals a color dimension unique to 'color-deficient' observers. (2005). J.M. Bosten, J.D. Robinson, G. Jordan and J.D. Mollon. Current Biology, 15(23).


No Meeting April 18th.


Download .pdf file for April 25th meeting (Wayne):

Hansen, T., Walter, S., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2007). Effects of spatial and temporal context on color categories and color constancy. Journal of Vision, 7(4):2.

Download supplemental information .pdf file for April 25th meeting:


Download .pdf file for May 2nd meeting (Kimberly):

Werner, A. (2007). Color constancy improves, when an object moves: High-level motion influences color perception. Journal of Vision, 7(14):19.

Download supplemental information .pdf file for May 2nd meeting:


No meeting on May 9th -- VSS annual meeting.


Download .pdf file for May 16th meeting (Kimberly):

Yi Jiang, Ke Zhou & Sheng He (2007). Human visual cortex responds to invisible chromatic flicker. Nature Neuroscience, 10(5), 657-662.


Download .pdf file for May 23rd meeting (Kimberly):

Sharpe, et al. (2006). Advantages and disadvantages of human dichromacy. Journal of Vision (2006) 6, 213-223.


Download .pdf file for May 30th meeting (Kim):

Thornton, W. A. (1998). How strong metamerism disturbs color spaces. Color Research and Application, 23 (6), 402-407.

Download supplemental information for the May 30th meeting (Kim's technique for generating metamers):


Download .pdf file for June 6th meeting (Wayne)

Reeves, Amano, & Foster. 2008. "Color constancy: phenomenal or projective?" Perception & Psychophysics, 70, 219-228.

Download supplemental .pdf file for Wayne's discussion:


Click on references below to access other articles we might want to discuss:

Buck, S. et al. (2006). Do rods influence the hue of foveal stimuli? Visual Neuroscience, 23, 519-523.

Faul, F., Ekroll, V., & Wendt, G. (2008). Color appearance: The limited role of chromatic surround variance in the"gamut expansion effect." Journal of Vision, 8(3):30.

McDermott, Juricevic, Bebis, and Webster (2008). Adapting images to observers. To appear in Rogowitz, B.E. and Pappas, T.N. (Eds.), Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, SPIE 6806-29, in press.

Hansen, T., Giesel, M., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2008). Chromatic discrimination of natural objects. Journal of Vision, 8(1):2.

Unique-hue stimulus selection using Munsell color chips. Hinks et al. Vol. 24, No. 10 / October, 2007 / J. Opt. Soc. Am. A.

Perceived shifts in saturation and hue of chromatic stimuli in the near peripheral retina. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A / Vol. 24, No. 10 / October, 2007 McKeefry et al.

Variant and invariant color perception in the near peripheral retina. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A / Vol. 23, No. 7 / July 2006 Parry et al.

Shapiro, A. G. (2008). Separating color from color contrast. Journal of Vision, 8(1):8.

Melin, A. D., et al. (2007). Effects of colour vision phenotype on insect capture by a free-ranging population of white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Animal Behavior, 73, 205-214.


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