Color has been scientifically investigated by linking color appearance to colorimetric
measurements of the light that enters the eye. However, the main purpose of color …

Abstract Hering's Opponent-Colors Theory has been central to understanding color
appearance for 150 years. It aims to explain the phenomenology of colors with two linked …

The origin of colour categories and their relationship to colour perception have been the
prime example for testing the influence of language on perception and thought (Sapir-Whorf …

This paper investigates the underlying cognitive processes of sound–color associations by
connecting perceptual evidence from research on cross-modal correspondences to sound …

This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical
facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction …

Focal colors, or best examples of color terms, have traditionally been viewed as either the
underlying source of cross-language color-naming universals or derived from category …

Color is a continuous variable, and humans can distinguish more than a million colors, yet
world color lexicons contain no more than a dozen basic color terms. It has been understood …

We report a series of 22 experiments in which the implicit associations test (IAT) was used to
investigate cross-modal correspondences between visual (luminance, hue [RG, BY] …

It is commonly held that yellow is happy and blue is sad, but the reason remains unclear.
Part of the problem is that researchers tend to focus on understanding why yellow is happy …

Recent studies suggest that the widely accepted evidence in support of categorical
perception of color may be a confound of effects due to low-level sensory mechanisms that …