Human memory, as a product of the mind and brain, is inherently private and personal. Yet,
arising from the interaction between the organism and its ecology in the course of phylogeny …

Abstract Hering's Opponent-Colors Theory has been central to understanding color
appearance for 150 years. It aims to explain the phenomenology of colors with two linked …

Correlated color temperature (CCT) is a one-dimensional metric that aims to quantify the
perceived visual quality of nominal white light sources. It is often used as a proxy for the …

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the
first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an …

Revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments in the field, Semantics, 4th
Edition, presents an engaging and accessible introduction to the study of meaning in …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …

Color is a ubiquitous perceptual stimulus, yet relatively little empirical and even less
theoretical work exists on color and psychological functioning. The research that has been …

The authors sought to replicate and extend the work of E. Rosch Heider (1972) on the Dani
with a comparable group from Papua, New Guinea, who speak Berinmo, which has 5 basic …

One of the basic tenets of cognitive linguistics is that the human capacity to process
language is closely linked with, perhaps even determined by, other fundamental cognitive …

This article demonstrates that emotion concepts—including the so-called basic ones, such
as anger or sadness—can be defined in terms of universal semantic primitives such as …