Colour-concept associations influence fundamental processes in cognition and perception,
including object recognition and visual reasoning. To understand these effects, it is …

As people interact with the world, they form associations between colors and concepts.
These color-concept associations are dynamic: they continually update with new …

Associations with colors are a rich source of meaning, and there has been considerable
interest in understanding the capacity of color to shape our functioning and behavior as a …

Concepts, both abstract and concrete, elicit a distribution of association strengths across
perceptual color space, which influence aspects of visual cognition ranging from object …

In human cognition, world knowledge supports the perception of object colours: knowing
that trees are typically green helps to perceive their colour in certain contexts. We go beyond …

The role of color in object representation was examined by using a variation of the Stroop
paradigm in which observers named the displayed colors of objects or words. In experiment …

Both evolutionary considerations and recent research suggest that the color red serves as a
signal indicating an object's importance. However, until now, there is no evidence that this …

In making sense of the environment, we implicitly learn to associate stimulus attributes that
frequently occur together. Is such learning favored for categories over individual items …

1University of Surrey, UK, 2University of Sussex, UK and 3Bilkent University, Turkey ere is
indirect evidence that categorical colour perception (better discrimination of colours from …

Colour is also critical in many object recognition tasks (Otsuka & Kawaguchi, 2009), and the
use of colour can enhance the retention of semantic information through association (eg …