Color, arousal, and performance - A comparison of three experiments

Color Research and Application

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-152

  Küller, Rikard ^a   Mikellides, Byron ^b   Janssens, Jan ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Color perception; Creativity; EEG; EKG; Emotions; Interior design; Performance

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CREATIVITY; EEG; EKG; EMOTIONS; INTERIOR DESIGN; PERFORMANCE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COLOR VISION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; INTERIORS (BUILDING);

COLOR;

EID: 65349098045     PISSN: 03612317     EISSN: 15206378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/col.20476     Document Type: Article

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