The visualization literature tells us that rainbow color maps are bad, yet domain experts continue to use them. Why? The truth is, we don’t know. It turns out that there is a lot we don’t know about rainbow color maps. Two of the primary reasons our community argues that rainbow color maps are ineffective can be traced back to the idea that rainbow color maps implicitly discretize the encoded d...

The present study investigated the effect of prior grammatical gender information provided by the production of a bare noun on the production of a syntactically unrelated, gender-inflected color adjective. The target language was Greek. A lexical priming task involving picture naming was employed. Participants saw a series of pictures, some in color and some in black-and-white; they had to name...

0022-1031/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.003 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M Recent research has shown that a two second glimpse of color can have an important influence on affect, cognition, and behavior. The present research examined whether perceiving color is necessary to produce an effect on psychological function...

In the aftermath of Western colonization is the trivialization of skin color as significant issue in the psychology of peoples of African descent. Although social scientists use race as a key factor in elucidating and understanding human social conditions, skin color and its impact on the social and psychological disposition of people of African descent have been understudied. Oblivious to the ...

In two language production experiments, we investigated whether stored knowledge of the typical color of objects affects spoken reference. In experiment 1, human speakers referred to objects with colors ranging from very typical (e.g., red tomato) to very atypical (e.g., blue pepper). The probability that speakers redundantly include color in their descriptions was almost linearly predicted by ...

That similar words can prime one another isn’t news. However, recently this phenomenon has been exploited to make inferences about conceptual representations. What types of similarity matter? While there is evidence that similarity in function, shape, and even manipulation figure in the organization of semantic memory, evidence for color similarity is sparse. This is surprising: intuition sugge...

This technical report summarizes the intrinsic sensor parameters for the range, IR and color sensor used in the Fort Carson data collection and explores sensor-to-sensor image mapping under di erent assumptions regarding relative sensor placement. The default case is to assume perfectly boresight aligned placement, and then the implications of di erent deviations from this perfect placement are...