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Memory color

Memory color
Memory color
A memory color is the color a beholder considers to be characteristic for an object based on their experience with that object. For example, the memory color of a banana is yellow for most people because they associate a banana with yellow in their memory.
color perception, Cognition, memory
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Witzel, Christoph
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Gegenfurtner, Karl R.
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Shamey, Renzo
Witzel, Christoph
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Gegenfurtner, Karl R.
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Shamey, Renzo

Witzel, Christoph and Gegenfurtner, Karl R. (2020) Memory color. In, Shamey, Renzo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Berlin. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_58-9).

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Abstract

A memory color is the color a beholder considers to be characteristic for an object based on their experience with that object. For example, the memory color of a banana is yellow for most people because they associate a banana with yellow in their memory.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 December 2020
Keywords: color perception, Cognition, memory

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Local EPrints ID: 445615
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445615
PURE UUID: 5cc7ce77-b130-47df-9d19-1e1b9fec9c56
ORCID for Christoph Witzel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-2420

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Date deposited: 18 Dec 2020 17:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:00

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Author: Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Editor: Renzo Shamey

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