Effects of environmental colours in virtual reality: Physiological arousal affected by lightness and hue

ML Weijs, D Jonauskaite… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is a popular belief that colours impact one's psychological and affective functioning.
However, clear-cut scientific evidence is still lacking, largely due to methodological …

The social turn of artificial intelligence

N Cristianini, T Scantamburlo, J Ladyman - Ai & Society, 2023 - Springer
Social machines are systems formed by material and human elements interacting in a
structured way. The use of digital platforms as mediators allows large numbers of humans to …

More is better: English language statistics are biased toward addition

B Winter, MH Fischer, C Scheepers… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We have evolved to become who we are, at least in part, due to our general drive to create
new things and ideas. When seeking to improve our creations, ideas, or situations, we …

Exploring the prospects and challenges of large language models for language learning and production

AM Borghi, C De Livio, F Mannella, L Tummolini… - Sistemi …, 2023 - rivisteweb.it
LLMs such as GPT-3 (Brown et al., 2020), PaLM (Chowdhery et al., 2022), and LLaMA
(Touvron et al., 2023) consist of large neural networks containing hundreds of billions (or …

An empirical study on the fairness of pre-trained word embeddings

E Sesari, M Hort, F Sarro - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Pre-trained word embedding models are easily distributed and applied, as they alleviate
users from the effort to train models themselves. With widely distributed models, it is …

[HTML][HTML] 'Just a colour?': Exploring women's relationship with pink alcohol brand marketing within their feminine identity making

AM Atkinson, BR Meadows, H Sumnall - International Journal of Drug …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The pinking of alcohol products and marketing (ie the (over) use of the colour
pink as a feminine aesthetic) is a form of gendered marketing that is used by the industry to …

Red background color biases gender categorization of human faces

N Chen, K Nakamura, K Watanabe - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Color carries gender information (eg, red-female). This study explored whether background
color could influence the gender categorization of human faces. Visual stimuli were …

[HTML][HTML] An automatic red-female association tested by the Stroop task

N Chen, K Nakamura, K Watanabe - Acta Psychologica, 2023 - Elsevier
Colors have been reported to be associated with genders (eg, reddish color—females).
Here, we investigated color-gender associations (red-female/green-male) among Japanese …

Red biases sex categorization of human bodies

N Chen, K Nakamura, K Watanabe - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Color is associated with gender information (eg, red-female). However, little has been
known on the effect of color on sex recognition of human bodies. This study aimed to …

Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus

L Guan, W Shi, Q Li, J Oktavianus… - Color Research & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Color significantly shapes our perceptions of the world, and extensive scientific research has
explored various aspects of color, including color linguistics, aesthetics, color and marketing …