Color is the most frequently studied feature in visual working memory (VWM). Oddly, much of this work de-emphasizes perception, instead making simplifying assumptions about the inputs served to memory. We question these assumptions in light of perception research, and we identify important points of contact between perception and working memory in the case of color. Better characterization of i...

Light enters the eye, is focused by the cornea, passes through the variable-diameter iris, is further focused by the lens, and strikes the light-sensitive receptors of the retina in the back of the eye. The photoreceptors of the retina can be divided into two basic categories: rods and cones. At normal light levels, cones dominate the initial response to light, resulting in photopic vision. Thr...

Categorical perception (CP) occurs when discrimination of items that cross category boundaries is faster or more accurate than discrimination of exemplars from the same category. Categorical perception of color is observed when, for example, a green stimulus and a blue stimulus are more easily distinguished than two stimuli from the same color category (e.g., two different shades of green). Col...

GLCM texture features have been widely used to characterize biomedical images. Most of the previous studies using GLCM features to characterize biomedical images only consider single or limited color space due to the use of only one color model. To mimic human color perception, conventional RGB color model may need to be supplemented with other color space models for better human vision represe...

This article reviews recent work on the perception of color in cases where color change leads to scission, or a perceived layering in depth of the visual field into chromatic processes. A model is proposed that predicts under what circumstances a layering in depth is perceived. The model takes into account shift in color and change in contrast; it helps to describe the colors and lightnesses of...

Color perception can be categorical: Between-category discriminations are more accurate than equivalent within-category discriminations. The effects could be inherited, learned, or both. The authors provide evidence that supports the possibility of learned categorical perception (CP). Experiment 1 demonstrated that observers' color discrimination is flexible and improves through repeated practi...

Categorical perception (CP) of color is the faster and/or more accurate discrimination of colors from different categories than equivalently spaced colors from the same category. Here, we investigate whether color CP at early stages of chromatic processing is independent of top-down modulation from attention. A visual oddball task was employed where frequent and infrequent colored stimuli were ...

We know most about the sense of Sight, with milestones like Berlin & Kay (1969) and Kay et al. (2006). Languages differ in quite systematic ways in their expression of color terms that can be related to basic mechanisms of color perception and the further neural processing of visual stimuli. We can distinguish between a pair of terms denoting intensity (light and dark), and terms denoting indiv...

Early visual experience is indispensable to shape the maturation of cortical circuits during development. Monocular deprivation in infancy, for instance, leads to an irreversible reduction of visually driven activity in the visual cortex through the deprived eye and a loss of binocular depth perception. It was tested whether or not early experience is also necessary for color perception. Infant...