Cognition and Color Reading Group (Fall 2007)


Ground Rules: Participants can volunteer to lead weekly discussions of published articles. Choice of article is up to the discussion leader, and could include any of those listed below, or any other article focusing on higher-order aspects of color processing (featuring front-end processing issues only when they bear on phenomenology, please). Ideally discussion leaders assume the usual responsibility of summarizing the key findings and the points of interest of an article, and bring in any relevant new results from the literature that bear on the study. To facilitate discussion, each week participants should email the discussion leader (and copy Kimberly) one or two questions for the week's article. Questions submitted by thursday will be emailed to the group before friday.

Meeting Time and Place: Time is every Friday from Noon till 1:00 (we have the room reserved till 1:30, but most people will probably want to limit it to a one-hour slot). Place is SSPA 2142, which is the small seminar room across from Kim Romney's office.

Choosing a Date to Lead Discussion: Email Kimberly (kjameson@uci.edu) to schedule a discussion date and choose an article. Article links provided below indicate unassigned dates (as "Open") which will be updated as the schedule fills up.


Please encourage others (students, faculty, etc.) to attend who might find this interesting -- The more, the merrier.


Click here to email the Cognition and Color Reading Group list


No Meeting September 28th.


October 5th meeting (Kimberly & Jack).

Dave Brainard: A Movie on Small spots and the retinal mosaic. (2007).

Download first Support Article for October 5th & 12th meeting.

Hofer, H., Singer, B. & Williams, D. R. (2005). Different sensations from cones with the same photopigment. Journal of Vision, 5, 444-454.

Download a different Support Article for October 5th & 12th meeting.

Choi, S. S., et al. (2005). Effect of wavelength on in vivo images of the human cone mosaic. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 22, 2598-2605.

Note: The two support articles above are just background reading for the ambitious. If you'd prefer to minimize your effort, download/read the manuscript for October 12th instead since the meetings on Oct. 5th and 12th are on the same topic.


Download NEW main .pdf file for October 12th meeting (Jack & Kimberly).

Brainard, D. H. (1994). Bayesian method for reconstructing color images from trichromatic samples. Paper presented at the IS&T 47th Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, 375-379.

Download larger secondary .pdf file for October 12th meeting (Jack & Kimberly).

Brainard, D., Williams, D.R., and Hofer, H. (manuscript). Trichromatic Reconstruction from the Interleaved Cone Mosaic: Bayesian Model and The Color Appearance Of Small Spots. Submitted to Journal of Vision, August 2007. (Permission was given by Brainard for our use here).


No meeting on October 19th or October 25th.


Download .pdf file for the November 2nd meeting (Kim):

Mizokami, Y., Werner, J. S., Crognale, M. A. & Webster, M. A. (2006). Nonlinearities in color coding: Compensating color appearance for the eye's spectral sensitivity. Journal of Vision, 6, 996-1007.


No meeting on November 9th (IMBS color conference meeting date), November 16th (Psychonomics meeting date) or on November 23rd (UCI holiday).


Download .pdf file for November 30th meeting (Wayne):

Churchland, P. (2007) On the Reality (and Diversity) of Objective Colors: How Color-Qualia Space Is a Map of Reflectance-Profile Space. Philosophy of Science, 74, 119-149.

Link to extra supplemental reading for those with lots of free time:

Churchland's "Chimerical colors: Some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience"


Download .pdf file for December 7th meeting (Kimberly):

Hood, S.M.H., Mollon, J.D., Purves, L. & Jordan, G. (2006). Color discrimination in carriers of color deficiency. Vision Research, 46, 2894-2900.

Download non-required .pdf file for December 7th meeting (Kimberly):

Jameson, K.A. (2006). Tetrachromatic Color Vision. In The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, P. Wilken, T. Bayne & A. Cleeremans (Ed.s). (In press). Oxford University Press: Oxford.


We resume with the meeting below in the first week of Winter Quarter.


Download .pdf file for meeting of Winter Quarter 2007 (Louis):

D. Wollschlaeger and B. L. Anderson. (manuscript). The role of layered scene representations in color appearance. Submitted for publication, August 2007. (Permission was given by Wollschlaeger for use in our group).

Note: Links for this discussion paper will be made active in Winter.

Download Supplemental information .pdf for first meeting of Winter Quarter.

Download first Support movie for first meeting of Winter Quarter.

Download second Support movie for first meeting of Winter Quarter.


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