Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ho, Hsin Ni ^a   Iwai, Daisuke ^b   Yoshikawa, Yuki ^b   Watanabe, Junji ^a   Nishida, Shin'Ya ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; TEMPERATURE; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TEMPERATURE; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903971434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05527     Document Type: Article

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