Increasing trainees' multicultural counseling competence (MCC) has been a hot topic in counseling. Scholars have identified predictors (e.g., race/ethnicity, color-blindness) of MCC, and educators provide multicultural training for trainees. Using a sample of 370 psychology trainees, this study examined whether multicultural training (a) moderated racial/ethnic differences on MCC and (b) change...

In the current study, we examined how color knowledge in a domain of expertise influences the accuracy and speed of object recognition. In Experiment 1, expert bird-watchers and novice participants categorized common birds (e.g., robin, sparrow, cardinal) at the family level of abstraction. The bird images were shown in their natural congruent color, nonnatural incongruent color, and gray scale...

Grounded cognition theories hold that the neural states involved in experiencing objects play a direct functional role in representing and accessing object knowledge from memory. However, extant data marshaled to support this view are also consistent with an opposing view that perceptuo-motor activations occur only following access to knowledge from amodal memory systems. We provide novel discr...

This study proposes and evaluates a simple stimulus display that allows one to measure memory color effects (the effect of object knowledge and memory on color perception). The proposed approach is fast and easy and does not require running an extensive experiment. It shows that memory color effects are robust to minor variations due to a lack of color calibration.

Cocktails are popular in a wide variety of social functions. Given the diverse selection of ingredients and preparation, there are often fitting choices that match the mood or spirit of any given moment. On the other hand, specifying the ideal drink can pose a challenge for the average person without detailed knowledge about cocktails. In this paper, a novel recommender system, “ColorCocktail” ...

In this paper, a new model to grade cured tobacco leaves using symbolic data is proposed. Color features such as average and standard deviation of hue of tobacco leaves are extracted using the Munsell color system. The extracted features of each grade are aggregated and represented in the form of inter-valued type data and stored in the knowledgebase. For a given test sample of a cured tobacco ...

Knowledge about the typical colors associated with familiar everyday objects (i.e., strawberries are red) is well-known to be represented in the conceptual semantic system. Evidence that such knowledge may also play a role in early perceptual processes for object recognition is scant. In the present ERP study, participants viewed a list of object pictures and detected infrequent stimulus repeti...

The relations among consciousness, brain behavior, and scientific explanation are explored in the domain of color perception. Current scientific knowledge about color similarity, color composition, dimensional structure, unique colors, and color categories is used to assess Locke's "inverted spectrum argument" about the undetectability of color transformations. A symmetry analysis of color spac...

Given a color image that was quantized in some hidden color space (termed compression color space) during previous JPEG compression, we aim to estimate this unknown compression color space from the image. This knowledge is potentially useful for color image enhancement and JPEG re-compression. JPEG quantizes the discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients of each color plane independently duri...