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Color memory for objects with prototypical color mismatch

dc.contributor.authorOpper, Jamie K., author
dc.contributor.authorMonnier, Patrick, advisor
dc.contributor.authorDraper, Bruce, committee member
dc.contributor.authorRhodes, Matthew, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:31:33Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractMany studies have demonstrated the effect of top-down influences on color preference and memory, but these have primarily studied short-term memory or color memory in the abstract (e.g., the experimenter names an object or substance and the subject produces a subjective match without first being exposed to a stimulus). The present study examined the effect of object color prototypicality and how such prototypicality might influence memory for colors of objects presented in non-prototypical colors (e. g., a banana presented as blue). A match between an object's prototypical and presentation colors appeared to facilitate the accuracy of matching and increase participants' confidence that they achieved a correct match; a prototypical color mismatch impaired subjects' ability to achieve a correct match. For stimuli presented in their prototypical colors, subjects tended to remember highly saturated stimuli as less saturated, and desaturated stimuli as more saturated, indicating a sort of "regression to a saturation mean". This effect did not occur for stimuli presented in a non-prototypical color or stimuli presented as simple colored circles. Evidence was not found, however, for systematic influence of object color prototypicality on the hue and/or luminance of subjects' produced matches.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierOpper_colostate_0053N_11548.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/79127
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subjectcolor
dc.subjectvisual memory
dc.subjectmemory
dc.subjectcolor categorization
dc.titleColor memory for objects with prototypical color mismatch
dc.typeText
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thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (M.S.)

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