In “The Psychophysics of Color” (Color Categories in Thought and Language, 1997), C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. stated that there are two different ways in Hering’s theory to divide colors into categories; chromatic such as violet, red, yellow and orange considered as mixed colors, and achromatic such as black, white and grey. In addition, the authors founded that there are six elemental colors in Hering’s theory. They explained that red, green, blue, yellow, white and black are the six elemental colors according to Hering, but Jameson and Hurvich who described color saturation (1959) noted that there are only four color terms; blue, green, yellow and red. In addition, the authors argued that Sternheim and Boynton pointed out the necessary of colors such as purple because it is made from two elemental colors, red and blue. Also, in terms of saturation, C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. pointed that Sewall and Wooten suggested there are two fields of contrast, a broadband and a surrounding ring. In addition, according to Ludman (1883), nonelemental colors such as brown, purple and pink are not elemental colors, but they are made from the six element colors. Yet, Gordon and Abramov (1988) stated that elemental colors might not be completed because they also can divide into “fundamental neural responses” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means exactly six colors, “composite categories” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means less than six colors, and “derived categories” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means more than six colors. To sum up, C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. included that Regan said “the relationship between color mechanism and color categories is somewhat distant” (Regan, 1987, pp86).
Saturday, November 17, 2007
for My Final Research Paper #2
In “The Psychophysics of Color” (Color Categories in Thought and Language, 1997), C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. stated that there are two different ways in Hering’s theory to divide colors into categories; chromatic such as violet, red, yellow and orange considered as mixed colors, and achromatic such as black, white and grey. In addition, the authors founded that there are six elemental colors in Hering’s theory. They explained that red, green, blue, yellow, white and black are the six elemental colors according to Hering, but Jameson and Hurvich who described color saturation (1959) noted that there are only four color terms; blue, green, yellow and red. In addition, the authors argued that Sternheim and Boynton pointed out the necessary of colors such as purple because it is made from two elemental colors, red and blue. Also, in terms of saturation, C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. pointed that Sewall and Wooten suggested there are two fields of contrast, a broadband and a surrounding ring. In addition, according to Ludman (1883), nonelemental colors such as brown, purple and pink are not elemental colors, but they are made from the six element colors. Yet, Gordon and Abramov (1988) stated that elemental colors might not be completed because they also can divide into “fundamental neural responses” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means exactly six colors, “composite categories” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means less than six colors, and “derived categories” (Kay and McDaniel, 1978, pp84) which means more than six colors. To sum up, C. L. Hardin and Maffi, L. included that Regan said “the relationship between color mechanism and color categories is somewhat distant” (Regan, 1987, pp86).
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Hi, Haruna~
You stated the different opinions, theories and arguments in an object way, and you explain clearly about the chromatic and achromatic color and elemental and nonelemental colors. In my opinion, you evaluated this material well. Actually, there is more information than you present in the class; I think you can present more about it.
As what I said last time, this is an interesting topic. So far, you didn’t writing about the psychology a lot~ I’m waiting to get more information from you~
Hi Haruna~ I think this is first time to make comment to you.Thanks for comment you made me at last task#1! ^^
Actually My first major in Korea was art, though I'm not studying right now, I was very interested in it.
In these days there are lot of researches of color related in other fields, like therapy and marketing.Also I heard those researches come up with very surprising and interesting results.
Today, I was very fond of your story about colors but I thought it would be more nice if there was some more explanations about relation between psychology and color~! May be that chapter was just all about explaining color~
then I'll looking forward to listen it next time~! ^---^
You indicated that there was not only one explanation on color but another one to show color elements objectively. The organization in which you dictated was plain, so easy to understand. Hence, it was not difficult for me to evaluate this article. In addition, when speaking this summary in front of the students, you did just as it was written, so please speak more understandably.
Lastly, further analysis will be required, as it is significant as necessary.
Akinori
ohayo Ha chan!!! Genki desu ka??
I think your is interesting, you explained very well about chromatic and achromatic color, you did a great job explainen your summarty, it was esay to understand and alos it had amny details. i think the psychology of color is a very importan, i think that such information as that could be very usefull in any ground for example in marketing; people could know what color are more likely to sell and use them in order to incrase their profits
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