In:New Directions in Colour Studies
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons
[Not in series 167] 2011
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 20 October 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.167.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.167.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Section 1. Theoretical issues
Illusions of colour and shadow
Universal trends and specific deviations: Multidimensional scaling of colour terms from the World Color Survey
Touchy-Feely colour
Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman
Section 2. Languages of the world
Preface to Section 2
Basic colour terms of Arabic
Red herrings in a sea of data: Exploring colour terms with the SCOTS Corpus
Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms
Rosa Schätze – Pink zum kaufen: Stylistic confusion, subjective perception and semantic uncertainty of a loaned colour term
Kashubian colour vocabulary
Colour terms: Evolution via expansion of taxonomic constraints
Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blue
Terms for red in Central Europe: An areal phenomenon in Hungarian and Czech
Section 3. Colour in society
Preface to Section 3
Colours in the community: Surnames and bynames in Scottish society
Hues and cries: Francis Bacon’s use of colour
Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies
Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature
Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage: Dimensions and connotations of conceptual color metaphor/metonym
The power of colour term precision: The use of non-basic colour terms
in nineteenth-century English travelogues
about northern Scandinavia
Section 4. Categorical perception of colour
Preface to Section 4
Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique
Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field
Effects of stimulus range on color categorization
Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision
Preface to Section 5
Colour and autism spectrum disorders
Red-Green dichromats’ use of basic
colour terms
Synaesthesia in colour
Towards a phonetically-rich account
of speech-sound → colour synaesthesia
Perceiving “grue”: Filter simulations of aged lenses support
the Lens-Brunescence hypothesis and reveal individual categorization types
Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning
Preface to Section 6
Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population
Ecological valence and human color preference
Look and learn: Links between colour preference and colour cognition
Effects of lightness and saturation on color associations in the Mexican population
Colour and emotion
Colors and color adjectives in the cortex
Section 7. Colour vision science
Preface to Section 7
Chromatic perceptual learning
Unique hues: Perception and brain imaging
A short note on visual balance judgements as a tool for colour appearance matching
Index
