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Professor Romney's recent research has
focused on human color vision ranging from cross-cultural studies of
color perception to representing physical reflectance spectra in low
dimensional Euclidean space (selected items available in pdf format
below). Other research interests include comparative cognitive studies
of semantic structures, the measurement of cultural knowledge using
culture consensus theory, and multidimensional scaling. He was a Fellow
at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1956-57.
He is a Fellow of the |
Ph.D. Harvard, 1956 (Social Anthropology). VITA
In May 2011, Romney was awarded $5000 in an InnoCentive Challenge contest. InnoCentive is a web site that posts Prizes for solving a problem a company or organization is attempting to solve. The subject of the Challenge was Thresholds for Perception of Color Differences. The challenge was to devise a method to correlate quantitative physical measurements of surface reflectance with human perception of the color appearance of that surface. For the text of the winning entry click on Solution. |
Selected Recent Publications
Indow, T., Romney, A. Kimball. 2008. Reflectance Spectra of Munsell Standard Chips and Their Appearance. Color Research and Application. Vol 33, No. 3/June 2008.
Romney, A. Kimball. 2008. Relating reflectance spectra space to Munsell color appearance space. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A/Vol. 25, No. 3/March 2008.
Romney, A. Kimball and Fulton, James T. 2006. Transforming reflectance spectra into Munsell color space by using prime colors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103:15698-15703.
Romney,
A. Kimball, Roy G. D'Andrade. 2005. Modeling lateral
geniculate nucleus cell response spectra and Munsell reflectance
spectra with
cone sensitivity curves. Proceedings
of the National Academy of
Sciences. 102:16512-16517.
Romney, A. Kimball, Roy G. D'Andrade, and Tarow Indow. 2005. The distribution of response
spectra in the lateral
geniculate nucleus compared with reflectance spectra of Munsell color
chips. Proceedings of the
Romney, A. K. and T. Indow. 2003. Munsell
reflectance spectra represented in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
Color
Research and Application. 28:182-196.
D'Andrade, R. G. and A. K. Romney. 2003. A
quantitative model for transforming reflectance spectra into the
Munsell color space
using cone sensitivity functions and opponent process weights. Proceedings
of the
Moore, C. C., A. K. Romney, and T. Hsia. 2002. Cultural,
gender, and individual differences in perceptual and semantic
structures of
basic colors in Chinese and English. Journal of Cognition and
Culture. 2:1-28.
Romney, A. Kimball and Tarow Indow. 2002. A
model for
the simultaneous analysis of reflectance spectra and basis factors of
Munsell
color samples under D65 illumination in three-dimensional Euclidean
space. Proceedings
of the
Romney, A. Kimball and Tarow Indow. 2002. Estimating
munsell reflectancer spectra from cone sensitivities or human color
matching
functions. Proceedings of the
Romney, A. K. and C. C. Moore. 2001. Systemic Culture Patterns as Basic Units of Cultural Transmission and Evolution. Cross Cultural Resource. May 2001 vol. 35 no. 2 154-178.
Romney, A. K., C. C. Moore, W. H. Batchelder, and T. Hsia. 2000. Statistical Methods for Characterizing Similarities
and
Differences between Semantic Domains. Proceedings of the
Moore, C. C., A. K. Romney, and T. Hsia. 2000. Shared cognitive representations of
perceptual
and semantic structures of basic colors in Chinese and English. Proceedings
of the
Shankle, William R., Romney, A. Kimball, Landing, Benjamin H. and Hara, Junko. 1998. Developmental patterns in the cytoarchitecture of the human cerebral cortex from birth to 6 years examined by correspondence analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95:4023-4028.
Romney, A. K. and C. C. Moore.1998. Toward a Theory of Culture as Shared Cognitive Structures. Ethos 26(3):314:337.
Institute for Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences
UC Irvine School of Social Sciences