Cognition and Color Reading Group (Winter 2011)




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 SBSG 2200, second floor of the new Gateway Building -- ** Note: new meeting location ** -- unless otherwise indicated below. 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.


PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING: The reading materials provided on this page are strictly for personal use for the instructional purposes of this seminar. Materials obtained from this page may not be redistributed or otherwise shared. For sharing purposes please obtain copies of materials from the original copyrights holders. If you are not a member of the Color and Cognition seminar you should not download or access any of the materials on this webpage. Thank you for understanding!!!


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No Meeting January 7th. Sackler Colloquium Evolution of Cooperation, NAS, Irvine.


January 14th - Meeting rescheduled.


Download .pdf file for Personal Use Only for the January 21st meeting (Jack)

Fu, Kefalov, Luo, Xue & Yau. (2008). Quantal noise from human red cone pigment. Nature Neuroscience, 11(5).


The .pdf for the January 28th meeting will be emailed (Ragnar)

Steingrimsson, Luce & Narens. (manuscript). Brightness of Different Hues is a Single Psychophysical Ratio Scale of Intensity.

In-progress manuscript will be emailed to you by Ragnar .... .


Download .pdf file for Personal Use Only for the February 4th meeting (Kimberly) -- LOCATION: SSPA 2112

Review of some results on the influence of rod photoreceptors on human color vision .....

Thomas, L.P. and Buck, S.L. (2006) Foveal and extra-foveal influences on rod hue biases. Visual Neuroscience 23, 539-542.


No meeting February 11th.


Download .pdf file for Personal Use Only for the February 18th meeting (Kimberly) -- LOCATION: SSPA 2112:

Brill, M. (1990). Mesopic color matching: some theoretical issues. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A/Vol. 7, No. 10.

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Trezona, P.W. (1973). The tetrachromatic color match as a colorimetric technique. Vision Research, 13, 9-25.


Download the .pdf file for Personal Use Only for the February 25th meeting (Kimberly) -- LOCATION: SSPA 2112:

Reitner A., Sharpe L. T., & Zrenner E. (1991). Is colour vision possible with only rods and blue sensitive cones? Nature, 352: 798-800.

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Field, G. et al. (2009). High-sensitivity rod photoreceptor input to the blueyellow color opponent pathway in macaque retina Greg D Field, Martin Greschner, Jeffrey L Gauthier, Carolina Rangel, Jonathon Shlens, Alexander Sher, David W Marshak, Alan M Litke & EJ Chichilnisky. Nature Neuroscience.

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Field, G. et al. (2009). Supplemental Methods.


Download the .pdf file for Personal Use Only for the March 4th meeting (Wayne) -- CHANGE BACK TO LOCATION: SBSG 2200:

Maria Olkkonen, Christoph Witzel, Thorsten Hansen, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner (2010). Categorical color constancy for real surfaces Journal of Vision, 10.


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