Negative priming refers to the situation in which an ignored item on an initial prime trial suffers slowed responding when it becomes the target item on a subsequent probe trial. In this experiment (and a replication), we demonstrate two ways in which stimulus consistency (matching) governs negative priming. First, negative priming for identical words occurred only when the prime distractor cha...

When a speaker says the name of a color, the color they picture is not necessarily the same as the listener imagines. Color is a grounded semantic task, but that grounding is not a single value as the most recent works on color-generation do. Rather proper understanding of color language requires the capacity to map a sequence of words is to a distribution in color space. To achieve this, we pr...

The color word Stroop effect in bilinguals is commonly half the magnitude when the written and naming languages are different (between) than when they are the same (within). This between-within language Stroop difference (BWLS) is likened to a response set effect, with greater response conflict for response relevant than irrelevant words. The nature of the BWLS was examined using a bilingual St...

This paper considers the problem of finding facial features in frontal color images. For a given image, our method at first detects skin regions on it using color segmentation in a 2D plane of selected color space (HSV, YES, YCrCb or normalized RGB), and after that generates face candidates. Then, we apply methods of fuzzy mathematical morphology to obtain face candidates in order to find a par...

variable data printing, custom publishing, color printing, visual performance The words in a document are often supported, illustrated, and enriched by visuals. When color is used, some of it is used to define the document’s identity and is therefore strictly controlled in the design process. The result of this design process is a “color specification sheet,” which must be created for every bac...

Our goal in the current report was to design a new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) task to probe the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in processing of salient symptom-related cues during the simultaneous performance of an unrelated task in drug-addicted persons. We used a novel fMRI color-word drug Stroop task in 14 individuals with cocaine...

Colors and their relationship to surrounding colors cause observers to feel specific emotions. This study proposes a method for extracting emotional words from the color combinations within images. For this, we extract the color spectrum of an input image. By examining the extracted color spectrum and color combinations, we obtain an emotional word. Then, we determine a specific emotion conveye...

Reordering the color table of color-quantized images is a very effective approach towards the improvement of the compression efficiency of color-indexed images. In this paper, we provide experimental results showing that, for images generated by colorquantization of full color natural images, histogram packing applied on a block basis is able to provide additional compression improvements of ar...

The Processing of high-dynamic-range (HDR) images is embodied by a lot of algorithms. This paper takes notice of one of these algorithms which is presented using the iCAM06. iCAM06 is capable of making color appearance predictions of HDR images based on CIECAM02 color predictions and incorporating spatial process models in the human visual system (HVS) for contrast enhancement. The effect of us...