Color names, color categories, and color-cued visual search: Sometimes, color perception is not categorical

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Brown, Angela M ^a   Lindsey, Delwin T ^b   Guckes, Kevin M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Color appearance constancy; Color vision; Eye movements; Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054681012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.12.1     Document Type: Article

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