Based on a comprehensive word-color association lexicon, we present Lexichrome: a web-based application that offers its visitors an ability to browse a catalogue of visual relationships between words and colors. Additionally, the application seeks to allow literary scholars, brand managers, and writers to further examine a trend in the popular notion of word-color associations through user-prov...

Presented with Stroop color-word stimuli, participants were asked to make one response (“Yes”) to the appearance of the word RED, the color red, or both and another response (“No”) when none of these targets (defined by redness) appeared. The same participants also performed in the standard Stroop task, naming the print color of the same set of color words. Because we were careful to (1) constr...

We designed multilayer wavelength-selective reflector films by stacking thin-films of transparent polymer. The optimum structure of the multilayer is determined using a combination of characteristic matrix method and a version of genetic algorithm. Such multilayer films can be used in LCD devices to enhance the color saturation of the display. key words: optical design, multilayer, color enhanc...

Do readers encode the sequencing of consonant (C) and vowel (V) phonemes (skeletal structure) in printed words? The authors used the Stroop task to examine readers' sensitivity to skeletal structure. In Experiment 1, CVC nonwords (e.g., pof) facilitated the naming of colors with congruent frames (e.g., red, a CVC word) but not with incongruent ones (e.g., green). In Experiment 2, the color blac...

The demo presents a prototype – called TopicExplorer– that combines topic modeling, key word search and visualization techniques to explore a large collection of Wikipedia documents. Topics derived by Latent Dirichlet Allocation are presented by top words. In addition, topics are accompanied by image thumbnails extracted from related Wikipedia documents to aid sense making of derived topics dur...

Replication efforts involving large samples are recommended in helping to determine the reliability of an effect. This approach was taken for a study from Meier, Robinson, and Clore (2004), one of the first papers in social cognition guided by conceptual metaphor theory, which reported that evaluations were faster when word valence metaphorically matched (e.g., a word with a negative meaning in...

An adult simulation study examined why children's learning of color and size terms follow different developmental patterns, one in which word comprehension precedes success in nonlinguistic matching tasks versus one in which matching precedes word comprehension. In 4 experiments, adults learned artificial labels for values on novel dimensions. Training mimicked that characteristic for children ...