People interpret abstract meanings from colors, which makes color a useful perceptual
feature for visual communication. This process is complicated, however, because there is …

Scene recognition can be enhanced by appropriate colour information, yet the level of visual
processing at which colour exerts its effects is still unclear. It has been suggested that colour …

The ability to rapidly and accurately recognize complex objects is a crucial function of the
human visual system. To recognize an object, we need to bind incoming visual features …

There is good evidence that early visual processing involves the coding of different features
in independent brain regions. A major question, then, is how we see the world in an …

In this study, we investigated the processes of coordination, adaptation, and calibration
during the development of colour naming and colour constancy, and we tested whether …

When preparing to name an object, semantic knowledge about the object and its attributes is
activated, including perceptual properties. It is unclear, however, whether semantic attribute …

Category training can induce category effects, whereby color discrimination of stimuli
spanning a newly learned category boundary is enhanced relative to equivalently spaced …

We examined categorical effects in color appearance in two tasks, which in part differed in
the extent to which color naming was explicitly required for the response. In one, we …

Visual categories group together different objects as the same kinds of thing. We review a
selection of research on how visual categories are learned. We begin with a guide to visual …

Certain colors are strongly associated with certain adjectives (eg red is hot, blue is cold).
Some of these associations are grounded in visual experiences like seeing hot embers glow …