A5055827434- Color perception and design
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Free Will and Agency
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- War, Ethics, and Justification
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Color Science and Applications
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Islamic Studies and History
- Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
American University of Beirut
2012-2023
Ronin Institute
2021
Institut Jean Nicod
2008
Abstract This paper considers Kamp and Partee's account of graded membership within a conceptual spaces framework puts the to test in domain colors. Three experiments are reported that meant determine, on one hand, regions color space where typical instances blue green located and, other degrees blueness/greenness various shades blue–green region as judged by human observers. From locations conjunction with follow for we interested in. These predicted compared degrees, obtained experiments....
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
Abstract Humans are poorer at identifying smells and communicating about them, compared to other sensory domains. They also cannot easily organize odor sensations in a general conceptual space, where geometric distance could represent how similar or different all odors are. These two generalities more less accepted by psychologists, they often seen as connected: If there is no space for odors, then olfactory identification should indeed be poor. We propose here an important revision this...
A 2007 study by Regier, Kay, and Khetarpal purports to show that universal categories emerge as a result of optimal partitioning color space. only consider categorizations up six categories. However, in most industrialized societies eleven are observed. This paper shows when applied the case categories, Khetarpal's optimality criterion yields unsatisfactory results. Applications intermediate cases seven, eight, nine, ten also briefly considered shown yield mixed We number possible...
So far, color-naming studies have relied on a rather limited set of color stimuli. Most importantly, stimuli been largely to highly saturated colors. Because this, little is known about how people categorize less colors and, more generally, the structure categories as they extend across all dimensions space. This article presents results from large Internet-based study that involved ranging available chroma levels in Munsell These help answer such questions English speakers name complex set,...
Since at least Hume and Kant, philosophers working on the nature of aesthetic judgment have generally agreed that common sense does not treat judgments in same way as typical expressions subjective preferences—rather, it endows them with intersubjective validity, property being right or wrong regardless disagreement. Moreover, this apparent validity has been taken to constitute one main explananda for philosophical accounts judgment. But is really case most people spontaneously having...
Cross-modal associations refer to non-arbitrary of features across sensory modalities. Such have been observed between many different features. One association that has rarely studied so far is touch and color. In this study, participants were asked match tactile haptic adjectives color samples shown individually on a screen. They could select one 11 terms, presented in pairs opposed adjectives. The results showed regular pattern the way terms matched Our further revealed colors which did...
For over a century, the question of relation language to thought has been extensively discussed in case color categorization, where two main views prevail. The relativist view claims that categories are relative while universalistic argues universal. Relativists also argue linguistically determined, and universalists they perceptually determined. Recently, argument for perceptual determination categorization undermined, regained some ground. This paper although account called into question,...
This study investigated cross-modal associations between color and touch using a matching task. Participants matched colors drawn from the surface of Munsell solid to antonym pairs haptic/tactile adjectives. For most term assessed ( soft / hard , smooth rough flat uneven slippery not light heavy thin thick round sharp ) appears predominantly influenced by lightness, with first each pair other dark colors, result in close agreement previous research. two terms, warm wet there were clear...
This article addresses two questions related to colour categorization, wit, the question what a category is, and how we identify categories. We reject both relativist universalist answers these questions. Instead, suggest that categories can be identified with help of criterion psychological saliency, which operationalized by means consistency consensus measures. further argue defined as well-structured entities optimally partition space. provide some empirical support for this claim...
Abstract We designed a new protocol requiring French adult participants to group large number of Munsell colour chips into three or four groups. On one, relativist, view, would be expected rely on their lexicon in such task. In this framework, the resulting groups should more similar categories than other languages categories. another, universalist, universal features perception. second match and basic terms languages. work, we first collected data build an accurate map (Experiment 1). went...
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, are arguably not the ultimate source of nor could they done otherwise initial conditions and laws nature held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about free will, conducted cross-cultural cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral...
Abstract What makes it the case that we draw boundary between “blue” and “green” where it? Do this because our perceptual system is biologically determined in way? Or culture language guide way categorize colors? These two possible answers have shaped historical discussion opposing so‐called universalists to relativists. Yet, most recent theoretical developments on color categorization reveal limits of such a polarization.