Memory and preference for the colors of objects

Siple, Patricia; Springer, Robert M.

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“…They also found that hue shifts were reduced by increasing the naturalness of the stimuli. Siple and Springer [6] confirmed the tendency for saturation increase, but reported quite accurate agreement for brightness and hue. In a study by Pérez-Carpinell, de Fez, Baldoví and Soriano [7] memory saturation only increased for high purity objects, while it decreased or remained the same for midrange or low purity objects.…”

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“…Studies on preferred object colors have also reported saturation increases with respect to the actual object colors [6,[9][10][11][12]. The preferred color of an object is not necessarily identical to its memory color [13], although Siple and Springer [6] could not identify any significant differences between memory and preferred colors for food objects.…”

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“…The preferred color of an object is not necessarily identical to its memory color [13], although Siple and Springer [6] could not identify any significant differences between memory and preferred colors for food objects.…”

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Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Smet¹,

Lin²,

Nagy³

et al. 2014

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Abstract:The effect of cross-regional or cross-cultural differences on color appearance ratings and memory colors of familiar objects was investigated in seven different countries/regions -Belgium, Hungary, Brazil, Colombia, Taiwan, China and Iran. In each region the familiar objects were presented on a calibrated monitor in over 100 different colors to a test panel of observers that were asked to rate the similarity of the presented object color with respect to what they thought the object looks like in reality (memory color). For each object and region the mean observer ratings were modeled by a bivariate Gaussian function. A statistical analysis showed significant (p < 0.001) differences between the region average observers and the global average observer obtained by pooling the data from all regions. However, the effect size of geographical region or culture was found to be small. In fact, the differences between the region average observers and the global average observer were found to of the same magnitude or smaller than the typical within region inter-observer variability. Thus, although statistical differences in color appearance ratings and memory between regions were found, regional impact is not likely to be of practical importance.

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Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

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Nagy³

et al. 2014

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“…Siple & Springer [9] used a colorimeter and controlled photographs of six fruits and vegetables to study the memory color and preference for them when presented with and without context. Although they also obtained simultaneous matches using the photographs and real fruit as references the memory matches were obtained before participants had seen this particular version of the objects so they were based on some previous internal representation.…”

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Bias effects of short- and long-term color memory for unique objects

2016

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Are objects remembered with a more saturated color? Some of the evidence supporting this statement comes from research using 'memory colors' -the typical colors of particular objects, for example the green of grass. The problematic aspect of these findings is that many different exemplars exist, some of which might exhibit a higher saturation than the one measured by the experimenter. Here we avoid this problem by using unique personal items and comparing long-and short-term color memory matches (in Hue, Value and Chroma) with those obtained with the object present. Our results, on average, confirm that objects are remembered as more saturated than they are. © 201X Optical Society of AmericaOCIS codes : (330.0330) Vision, color, and visual optics; (330.1690) Color; (330.1720 1.IntroductionIn our everyday life color is a property strongly associated with objects and we have all heard and maybe even seen with our mind's eye the "red rose" of Robert Burn's poem or the "green grass of home" sung by Tom Jones. This idea of linking certain objects with a defined color was formalized by Hering and Katz in the early 20 century, as discussed in [1,2]. Subsequently Koffka [3] and others put forward the specific hypothesis that colors are remembered more saturated, in line with the Gestalt hypothesis of change towards better or the ideal; sometimes identified as a 'positive time error ' [4]. A modern formulation of this can now be found as a statement of fact in some image processing [5] and photography books [6]. However in more than 80 years of research into color and memory the evidence to support this has been inconclusive at best.Hanawalt & Post [2] report 4 studies using different methods to explicitly test for an increase in saturation of remembered colors. They used abstract color stimuli, different task and timings; under none of their tested conditions they find that remembered colors are more saturated.In Newhall et al. [7] the main experiment is a study using colored lights (2 deg visual field) presented against a neutral background where the authors compared simultaneous color matches with successive. The latter being the memory task, where after a gap of 5 sec. participants were asked to set the colorimeter to the color that had been previously presented also for 5 sec. A comparison between the matches in the simultaneous and the successive condition indicates a consistent increase in Munsell Chroma (and Value to a lesser extent) for the memory matches. In this paper they also describe an older study (their Supplementary Experiment 3) in which participants are asked to select Munsell samples that best represent the recalled colors of a series of unseen objects of highly diagnostic color (brick, sand, grass and dry grass, skin, concrete, pine trees and weathered wood). For some of these objects the memory matches seem to be of higher Munsell Chroma and Value than the 'standards' they compare them to. This latter experiment was recreated by Bartleson [8] using essentially the same methods and arriving at s...

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“…The amount of deviation between the rendered image and the undistorted original is often used as a measure for image quality. Such an approach, however, cannot describe situations in which the original image does not possess the highest quality, as found by amongst others Hunt (1982) 1 and Siple and Springer (1983). 2 In such situations, image quality should be predicted from the rendered image only.…”

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Influence of chroma variations on naturalness and image quality of stereoscopic images

Kuijsters

IJsselsteijn

Lambooij

et al. 2009

Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIV

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The computational view on image quality of Janssen and Blommaert states that the quality of an image is determined by the degree to which the image is both useful (discriminability) and natural (identifiability). This theory is tested by creating two manipulations. Firstly, multiplication of the chroma values of each pixel with a constant in the CIELab color space, i.e., chroma manipulation, is expected to increase only the usefulness by increasing the distances between the individual color points, enhancing the contrast. Secondly, introducing stereoscopic depth by varying the screen disparity, i.e., depth manipulation, is expected to increase both the usefulness and the naturalness. Twenty participants assessed perceived image quality, perceived naturalness and perceived depth of the manipulated versions of two natural scenes. The results revealed a small, yet significant shift between image quality and naturalness as a function of the chroma manipulation. In line with previous research, preference in quality was shifted to higher chroma values in comparison to preference in naturalness. Introducing depth enhanced the naturalness scores, however, in contrast to our expectations, not the image quality scores. It is argued that image quality is not sufficient to evaluate the full experience of 3D. Image quality appears to be only one of the attributes underlying the naturalness of stereoscopic images.

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Memory and preference for the colors of objects

Cited by 80 publications

References 16 publications

Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Bias effects of short- and long-term color memory for unique objects

Influence of chroma variations on naturalness and image quality of stereoscopic images

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