If it's a banana, it must be yellow: The role of memory colors in color constancy

Hurlbert, Anya; Ling, Yazhu

doi:10.1167/5.8.787

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“…Although, Granzier and Gegenfurtner [14] reported a small improvement, neither Ling [15], nor Kanematsu and Brainard [16] identified such effect. Ling [17], as well as others [18][19][20] did however report an influence of the memory color on the perceived color of the familiar object itself, consistent with Hering's statement that "All objects that are already known to us from experience, or that we regard as familiar by their color, we see through the spectacles of memory color." [1].…”

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Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Smet¹,

Lin²,

Nagy³

et al. 2014

Opt. Express

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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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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 72%

Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Smet¹,

Lin²,

Nagy³

et al. 2014

Opt. Express

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“…Ball and Sekuler, 1980; Bartleson, 1960; Bruner et al, 1951; Farah, 1985; Hansen et al, 2006; Hurlbert and Ling, 2005; Ishai and Sagi, 1995, 1997a, b; Mast et al, 2001; Siple and Springer, 1983), which dates at least to Ewald Hering's (1878) concept of “memory colors” – e.g. perceived color should be biased toward yellow if the color originates from a banana.…”

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On the Perception of Probable Things: Neural Substrates of Associative Memory, Imagery, and Perception

Albright

2012

Neuron

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SUMMARY Perception is influenced both by the immediate pattern of sensory inputs and by memories acquired through prior experiences with the world. Throughout much of its illustrious history, however, study of the cellular basis of perception has focused on neuronal structures and events that underlie the detection and discrimination of sensory stimuli. Relatively little attention has been paid to the means by which memories interact with incoming sensory signals. Building upon recent neurophysiological/behavioral studies of the cortical substrates of visual associative memory, I propose a specific functional process by which stored information about the world supplements sensory inputs to yield neuronal signals that can account for visual perceptual experience. This perspective represents a significant shift in the way we think about the cellular bases of perception.

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“…Several subsequent studies investigating the influence of memory on the perception of object colors validated Hering's claim by showing that the expectation of the color of an object being impressed on the observer's long-term memory undeniably affects its perceived color. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Independent experiments performed by Duncker, 2 Bruner et al, 7 and Harper 8 for example revealed that the memory color, which is associated with a certain familiar object, has a significantly measurable impact on the observers' color matching results when the object is presented in such a way that its actual color is not the color characteristically identified with it, that is, a yellow banana illuminated by a red light source leads to a more yellowish color matching result than its actual color of presentation would suggest.…”

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Color appearance rating of familiar real objects under immersive viewing conditions

Babilon

Khanh

2018

Color Research & Application

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With the concept of memory colors being considered to play a crucial role for many imaging and lighting applications, the questions how people assess the color appearance of familiar objects and what kind of fundamental characteristics can be derived from these assessments have extensively been studied in the past. However, all of the previous studies, the authors of this article are aware of, lack in realistic viewing and adaptation conditions. In the attempt of overcoming these deficiencies, a new experiment investigating the impact of long‐term memory on the color appearance ratings of 12 familiar test objects was performed. The pooled observer data were modeled in CIECAM02 color space using bivariate Gaussian functions whose centroids define the corresponding memory color centers for each test object. Comparisons with previous results obtained by Smet et al. revealed no significant differences in the reported memory color centers, but showed distinct deviations in the covariance matrices defining the shape of the fitted distribution functions. It is supposed that this new set of functions will lead to significantly different results when being used for the construction of an updated memory‐based color quality metric.

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If it's a banana, it must be yellow: The role of memory colors in color constancy

Cited by 26 publications

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Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

Cross-cultural variation of memory colors of familiar objects

On the Perception of Probable Things: Neural Substrates of Associative Memory, Imagery, and Perception

Color appearance rating of familiar real objects under immersive viewing conditions

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