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Do focal colors look particularly "colorful"?

Do focal colors look particularly "colorful"?
Do focal colors look particularly "colorful"?
If the most typical red, yellow, green, and blue were particularly colorful (i.e., saturated), they would “jump out to the eye.” This would explain why even fundamentally different languages have distinct color terms for these focal colors, and why unique hues play a prominent role in subjective color appearance. In this study, the subjective saturation of 10 colors around each of these focal colors was measured through a pairwise matching task. Results show that subjective saturation changes systematically across hues in a way that is strongly correlated to the visual gamut, and exponentially related to sensitivity but not to focal colors.
1084-7529
A365-A374
Witzel, Christoph
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Franklin, Anna
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Witzel, Christoph
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Franklin, Anna
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Witzel, Christoph and Franklin, Anna (2014) Do focal colors look particularly "colorful"? Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 31 (4), A365-A374. (doi:10.1364/JOSAA.31.00A365).

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If the most typical red, yellow, green, and blue were particularly colorful (i.e., saturated), they would “jump out to the eye.” This would explain why even fundamentally different languages have distinct color terms for these focal colors, and why unique hues play a prominent role in subjective color appearance. In this study, the subjective saturation of 10 colors around each of these focal colors was measured through a pairwise matching task. Results show that subjective saturation changes systematically across hues in a way that is strongly correlated to the visual gamut, and exponentially related to sensitivity but not to focal colors.

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Local EPrints ID: 438800
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438800
DOI: doi:10.1364/JOSAA.31.00A365
ISSN: 1084-7529
PURE UUID: cd04fda5-a0b8-49ae-9cda-41bb95c6dabe
ORCID for Christoph Witzel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-2420

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Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:00

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Author: Christoph Witzel ORCID iD
Author: Anna Franklin

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