PICS 08
CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
Unless stated otherwise, the venue for events is the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT) MONDAY 14th July 2008 9.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 Registration Coffee Session 1 Chair: David Simmons Welcome and Opening: Prof. Michael Burton Colour Naming Research: the New Synthesis. (Don Dedrick) Language and Culture in Perception. (Julie Goldstein with Jules Davidoff) Universal Trends and Specific Deviations: Multidimensional Scaling of Colour Terms from the World Color Survey. (David Bimler) Lunch Session 2 Chair: Carole Biggam The Berkeley Color Project 1. Preferences for Individual Colours. 2. Preferences for Colour Combinations. (Stephen Palmer & Karen Schloss) Does Colour Preference Have a Role in Colour Cognition? (Nikki Pitchford, Emma Davis & Gaia Scerif) Coffee Session 3 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 Chair: Carole Hough Colour Preference Across Ages in the UK Population. (Yazhu Ling with Anya Hurlbert) Discriminability of Eggshell Colour Polymorphisms and Relations to Maternal Investment in the Flycatchers and Thrushes. (Phillip Cassey with John Ewen, Tim Blackburn, Mark Hauber & Justin Marshall) Parasite Induced Colour Change: a Novel Way to Deter Predators? (Karen Spencer and Andy Fenton) Supper, 1A The Square Session 4 Chair: David Simmons Keynote Speaker: Fred Kingdom, Illusions of Colour and Shadow. Sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems
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TUESDAY 15th July 2008 09.00-09.30 09.30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 Session 5 Chair: Jules Davidoff Taking ‘Colourful Language’ Literally: the Cognitive Mechanisms of LanguageTriggered Synaesthesia. (Julia Simner) Hues and Cries: Francis Bacon’s Use of Colour. (Nicholas Chare) Colour and Emotion. (David Simmons) Coffee Session 6 Chair: Ian Davies Elevated Chromatic Thresholds in Children with Autism. (Anna Franklin with Paul Sowden, Leslie Notman, Melissa Gonzalez-Dixon, Iona Alexander & Stephen Loveday) Colour Blindness: Diagnosis and Everyday Problems (and Solutions) (Julio Lillo with Ian Davies) How to Think like R. W. Pickford: Identifying Sensory Processes Using Individual Differences in Colour Vision. (David Peterzell with Donald MacLeod) Video. Preliminary Research on Turkish Basic Colour Terms with an Emphasis on Blue. (Kaidi Rätsep) Lunch POSTERS 1. Basic Colour Terms of Arabic. (Abdul Al-Rasheed with Ian Davies) 2. Biological Components of Colour Preference in Infancy. (Anna Franklin with Laura Bevis, Yazhu Ling & Anya Hurlbert) 3. Colourful Celtic Personal Names. (Heidi Lazar-Meyn) 4. Variations of Intensity and Saturation as they Affect Colour Associations in the Mexican University Population. (Lilia Prado-León with Rosalío Avila-Chaurand & Rosa Rosales-Cinco) 5. Experimenting in Second Order Vision. (Lucia Ronchi) 6. Colour-coded PIN Pads Impair PIN Retention. (Karen Renaud and Judith Ramsay) 7. The Colour of Vowels: Chromo-Phonetic Mappings in Non-Synaesthetes. (Rachel Smith with W. Cartwright-Hignett) Session 7 Chair: Don Dedrick Red Herrings in a Sea of Data: Exploring Colour Terms with the SCOTS Corpus. (Wendy Anderson with Carole Hough & Christian Kay) Colour Terms and Natural Taxonomy: the Case of Russian. (Ekaterina Rakhilina with Galina Paramei) Coffee; Demonstration of Clouds program (Dave Beavan) Session 8 Chair: Julia Simner Theories of Colour Naming. (Barry Maund) Touchy-Feely Colour. (Mazviita Chirimuuta) C. S. Peirce on Colour. (Barbara Saunders) Civic Reception: Glasgow City Chambers Buses leave from University Place (street containing entrance to WILT) at 6 p.m. sharp.
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WEDNESDAY 16th July 2008 09.00-09.30 09.30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 Session 9 Chair: Anna Franklin The Time Course and Neural Markers of Infant and Adult Colour Categorisation. (Alexandra Clifford with Anna Franklin, Amanda Holmes & Ian Davies) Category Training Affects Colour Discrimination. (Gilda Drivonikou Alexandra Clifford, Anna Franklin, Emre Özgen & Ian Davies) Population Heterogeneity and Colour: Stimulus Heterogeneity in Agent-Based Colour Categorisation. (Kimberly Jameson with Natalia Komarova) Coffee Session 10 Chair: Anders Steinvall Colour Appearance: an Essential Concept in Understanding Chromatic Studies in Processes of Building and Structuring Architectural and Urban Space. (Michel Cler, read by Verena Schindler) Colour and Surface – Architecture’s Expanded Field: an Inquiry into Colour in Architecture. (Verena Schindler) Towards the Semiotic Theory of Basic Colour Terms and the Semiotics of Juri Lotman. (Urmas Sutrop) Cool, Warm, Dark, Light or Afterimage: Dimensions and Connotations of Conceptual Colour Metaphor / Metonym. (Jodi Sandford) Lunch Session 11 Chair: Margarita Correia Terms for Red in Central Europe: an Areal Phenomenon in Hungarian and Czech. (Mari Uusküla) Rosa Schätze – Pink zum kaufen: Stylistic Confusion, Subjective Perception and Semantic Uncertainty of a Loaned Colour Term. (Claudia Frenzel) The Colours of the North. On the Use and Effects of Specific Colour Vocabulary in 19th century English-speaking Travelogues about Northern Scandinavia. (Anders Steinvall) Coffee Session 12 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 19.00-20.00 20.00-20.30 20.30-21.00 21.00-21.30 Chair: David Bimler
‘Imperial’ Purple and Anglo-Saxon England. (Carole Biggam)
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15.30-16.00
Ceramic Lustre Glazes: Appearance, Composition and Conservation. (Norman Tennent) Armorial Colours and their Perception in Medieval Literature. (Michael Huxtable) Supper: WILT Session 13 Chair: Michael Huxtable Conceptual Colour Landscape in Visual Art Based on Colour Terms in Place Names. (Lesley Davy) Earth Colours: an Introduction to my Work. (Jan Hendry) Developmental Programming for Participatory Art: Searching for the Meanings of Colours. (Reuben Preston)
THURSDAY 17th July 2008 09.00-09.30 09.30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 11.30-12.00 12.00-12.30 12.30-14.00 14.00-14.30 Session 14 Chair: Fred Kingdom Categorical Perception and Colour Discrimination. (Valérie Bonnardel) Influence of Stimulus Range on Color Naming and Categorical Perception. (Oliver Wright) Colours and Colour Adjectives in the Cortex. (Alessio Plebe with Marco Mazzone & Vivian De la Cruz) Coffee Session 15 Chair: Wendy Anderson Unique Hues: Perception and Brain Imaging. (Sophie Wuerger with Laura Parkes, Simon Cropper, Jan-Bernard Marsman, David Oxley & John Goulermas) Perceptual Learning of Colour Discrimination Involves Early Visual Analysis. (Leslie Notman with Paul Sowden, Ian Davies, Iona Alexander & Emre Özgen) A Survey of Computational Colour Vision. (Brian Funt) Lunch Group photograph Presentation of Prize for Best Poster (Fred Kingdom) Session 16 Chair: Barbara Saunders Colours in the Community: Surnames and Bynames in Scottish Society. (Ellen Bramwell) Perceiving Grue: Reinvestigating the Lens-Brunescence Hypothesis. (Sebastian Walter) Coffee Session 17 Chair: Ekaterina Rakhilina The Colour System of Contemporary Maltese in Diachronic Perspective. (Alexander Borg) Preto and Negro, Two Terms to Name the Colour Black in Portuguese – their Specific Meaning and Use. (Margarita Correia with Dulce Pereira) Kashubian Colour Vocabulary. (Adam Pawłowski with Danuta Stanulewicz)
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Friday July 18: Excursion to Loch Lomond and the Highlands (led by Carole Biggam)