Salient features of Munsell colour space as a function of monolexemic naming and response latencies

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-313

  Sturges, Julia ^a   Whitfield, T W Allan ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Colour naming; Colour perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTOMETRY;

EID: 0343036205     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00170-8     Document Type: Article

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