Déborah Epicoco, Christine Mohr, Mari Uusküla, Michael Quiblier, Maliha Bouayed Meziane, Eric Laurent, Giulia F. M. Spagnulo, Domicele Jonauskaite
{"title":"The PURPLE mystery: Semantic meaning of three purple terms in French speakers from Algeria, France, and Switzerland","authors":"Déborah Epicoco, Christine Mohr, Mari Uusküla, Michael Quiblier, Maliha Bouayed Meziane, Eric Laurent, Giulia F. M. Spagnulo, Domicele Jonauskaite","doi":"10.1002/col.22908","DOIUrl":"10.1002/col.22908","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies on the color category PURPLE yielded inconsistent category boundaries, focal colors, and color-emotion associations. In French, there are at least three color terms referring to the shades of purple, potentially weighing on these inconsistencies. Thus, we tested the semantic breadth and richness in semantic meaning of <i>violet</i> (basic term), <i>lilas</i> (non-basic), and <i>pourpre</i> (non-basic). We collected free associations in 274 French speakers from Algeria, France, and Switzerland, yielding 2079 responses, of which 436 were discrete and 275 were unique. Frequency analyses and semantic coding supported the basicness status of <i>violet</i> in French, within a hierarchically structured semantic system. Moreover, the meaning of the three terms was not synonymous. <i>Violet</i> had the most abstract meaning. <i>Lilas</i> had the narrowest meaning, mainly referring to Natural Entities. <i>Pourpre</i> seemed close to RED. We found no differences between the countries. Future studies should extend this approach to other languages and other color terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":10459,"journal":{"name":"Color Research and Application","volume":"49 1","pages":"93-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory colors of familiar objects induce general color preference","authors":"Songyang Liao, Tatsuya Yoshizawa","doi":"10.1002/col.22906","DOIUrl":"10.1002/col.22906","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies have offered multiple explanations for the causality of color preference but no consensus has been reached. In this study, we propose an alternative explanation that the memory colors of familiar objects, especially food colors of humans can induce color preferences. We conducted two experiments. In Experiment 1, the memory color experiment, we asked participants to rate the similarity between presented color samples and memory colors of five familiar fruits and vegetables in Japan; we then calculated the location of the colors in the <i>CIELAB</i> color space that looked most similar to the remembered objects using the bivariate Gaussian function. In Experiment 2, the color preference experiment, color variations were created based on the memory colors obtained from Experiment 1. A different group of participants rated their preference for each color variation, then we applied regression analysis to these ratings. We observed two types of regressions between preference ratings and distance to memory colors: (1) for colors from red to green that represent the food colors for primates, color preference increased when the color was closer to the memory colors of the fruits and vegetables found in Experiment 1; and (2) for blue and purple colors, colors were preferred when they became bluer. We suggest that the evolutionarily acquired mechanism of color preference derives crucial cues from our ecological environment. Therefore, the mechanism produces the same color preference trend among people who grow up in similar environments, for example, environments containing the same fruits.</p>","PeriodicalId":10459,"journal":{"name":"Color Research and Application","volume":"49 1","pages":"79-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/col.22906","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of lip and eye color on the emotion categorization of facial expressions","authors":"Yan Zuo, Yasuhiro Kawabata","doi":"10.1002/col.22905","DOIUrl":"10.1002/col.22905","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined whether people's ability to recognize facial expressions is affected by manipulating the color of their lips or eyes. Participants comprised 100 Chinese adolescents (mean age = 13.79 years, SD = 1.06). The stimuli consisted of happy, neutral, and sad facial expressions, which were manipulated to have different lip or eye colors. Participants reacted to the images by indicating their perceived emotion. Performance speed and accuracy were assessed during the experiment. Results indicated that for happy and neutral expressions, the use of color significantly reduced reaction times, while the accuracy remained unchanged. Conversely, for sad expressions, reaction time was not affected by color, but all color categories exhibited reduced accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10459,"journal":{"name":"Color Research and Application","volume":"49 1","pages":"188-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135458377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the questionable use of CIE \u0000 \u0000 L\u0000 *\u0000 to infer geometric properties of achromatic perception","authors":"Michel Berthier, Edoardo Provenzi","doi":"10.1002/col.22902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/col.22902","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the paper “The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space,” the authors analyze the data of visual experiments conducted using triad of CIE <math>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 <mo>*</mo>\u0000 </msup></math> achromatic stimuli. The statistical analysis of their results leads them to claim that the <math>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 <mo>*</mo>\u0000 </msup></math> axis cannot be endowed with a Riemannian metric coherent with observers' responses. In this communication we provide a mathematical analysis which, in our opinion, refutes the main claim of the quoted paper. Furthermore, we raise questions on the soundness of using an achromatic perceptual coordinate to describe non-chromatic perception. We inform about an alternative in which achromaticity emerges from the very act of observing colors (Provenzi E. SIAM J Imag Sci, 15(4):1944–1976, 2022; Berthier M, Provenzi E. Proc R Soc A, 478(2258):20210508, 2022).</p>","PeriodicalId":10459,"journal":{"name":"Color Research and Application","volume":"48 6","pages":"655-661"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}