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Progress in Colour Studies
Volume II. Psychological aspects
The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts. Along with its companion volume, Progress in Colour Studies 1: Language and Culture, this book offers a fascinating insight into current issues and research into colour. Most of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled ‘Progress in Colour Studies’ held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. Some additional invited papers are included from investigators exploring new and exciting avenues of colour research. The contributions to both books represent reviews of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, and some new research findings are reported. This volume, principally psychological in content, focuses on the development of colour perception and colour language, from infancy into adulthood, across a diverse range of cultures, including English, Himba, Chinese, and Mexican, and on the intriguing yet perplexing condition of synaesthesia, thus bridging research from the physiology, psychology and anthropology of colour.
[Not in series, PICS 2] 2006. xiv, 237 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–ix
- Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944–2004: An AppreciationTerri MacKeigan and Chris Sinha | pp. xi–xii
- Abbreviations | pp. xiii–xiv
- Section 1: Theoretical approaches
- Explanation(s) and the patterning of basic colour words across languages and speakersDon Dedrick | pp. 1–12
- Re-assessing perceptual diagnostics for observers with diverse retinal photopigment genotypesKimberly A. Jameson, David Bimler and Linda M. Wasserman | pp. 13–33
- Hue categorization and color naming: Physics to sensation to perceptionMarc H. Bornstein | pp. 35–68
- Section 2: Developmental and cultural aspects
- Infant colour perception and discrete trial preferential looking paradigmsDavida Y. Teller, Maria Pereverzeva and Iris Zemach | pp. 69–90
- The rivalry between colour and spatial attributes in infant response to the visual fieldDi Catherwood | pp. 91–100
- Converging evidence for pre-linguistic colour categorizationAnna Franklin and Ian R.L. Davies | pp. 101–119
- Colour categorization in preschoolersValererie Bonnardel and Nicola Pitchford | pp. 121–138
- The developmental acquisition of basic colour termsNicola Pitchford and Kathy T. Mullen | pp. 139–158
- Colour categories and category acquisition in Himba and EnglishDebi Roberson, Jules Davidoff, Ian R.L. Davies and Laura R. Shapiro | pp. 159–172
- Sex differences in colour preferenceZhu Ling, Anya Hurlbert and Lucy Robinson | pp. 173–188
- Section 3: Cognitive and emotional aspects
- Colour associations in the Mexican university populationLilia R. Prado-León, Rosalío Avila-Chaurand and Rosa Amelia Rosales-Cinco | pp. 189–202
- Synaesthesia, neurology and languageChristian Kay and Catherine Mulvenna | pp. 203–224
- Author index | pp. 225–233
- Subject index | pp. 235–237
“I learned much from this volume. The field of colour is much greater than that to which I pay the most attention. Only through meetings like PICS and volumes like this can we hope to learn the different points of views of researchers from other disciplines and provide a more integrated understanding of colour as part of our psyche and a part of our world.”
Ken Knoblauch, 2006
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