Color Experience In Synaesthetes

This experiment was conducted by surveying ninety-six people, 48 males and 48 females, to complete a short survey. The survey asked them if they were color blind and whether they were male or female. They were then given five color cards (blue, green, pink, purple and yellow) and ordered the sample colors from their favorite to least favorite on a scale of 1-5.

It is intriguing how something simple as sound waves affect our emotions deeply. Igor Stravinsky’s famous ballet score “Rite of Spring” had a massacre theme with very disturbing images and surprisingly, the audience responded with a bloody riot with people even hitting Stravinsky. The second time the audience heard the music, they applauded him and to a greater surprise, the same music became Disney’s music. This transition of people’s dislike of a music to greatly appreciating piece is done by the brain. As the music repeats, the brain has the capacity to tune into to it and even adjust to that sound. When we hear unfamiliar noises that are dissonant or unpleasant, auditory cortex’s role is to differentiate the plethora of sounds and find

In another study, five experiments were conducted to determine if coloring a single Stroop element reduced automaticity or slowed the processing of a color. The results demonstrated that indeed it slowed processing of congruent and neutral stimuli more than it slows processing of incongruent stimuli (Monahan, 2001).

Today, there is a momentum towards researching the possible hereditary influences of developmental dyslexia. As recently as 2013, The Oxford Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care considers that there is an “inherited component” to dyslexia. (Harris & White, 2013, p. 179) Today’s social work perspective is more flexible with the term itself, as it is considered by to incorporate a range of difficulties with lexical information-processing. However, The Oxford Dictionary does not provide a context for these “difficulties” as they are experienced by the language-learner, and therefore seems to support (perhaps unwittingly) the notion that there is a so-called “normal” way for a person to learn language. Blachman (2013) advances a more orthographical conceptualization of dyslexia, whereby the dyslexic language learner defies common literacy principles in favor of their own. These tend to be more visually-oriented, so that a picture or a feeling is associated with an entire word, as opposed to the sound-to-syllable associations learners are “supposed” to

The effect of Teaching Kinesthetic letter sound symbols to formulate an oral or written response to CVC words or pseudo words

An interesting challenge arises when a task such as color naming is identified as both controlled and automatic, by varying the other task involved. Color naming is identified as a controlled process when the other task is word reading, but as an automatic process when the other task is shape naming. Cohen, Dunbar and McClelland (1990) proposed an alternative explanation of the Stroop effect, which does not distinguish between automatic and controlled processing. Instead, they proposed that automaticity is a range, and that Stroop interference depends on the relative degree of learning the particular tasks, not on processing speed.

Color vision is an evolutionary trait that provides primates with significant reproductive and survival value (Gomes, Pessoa, Suganuma, Tomaz, & Pessoa, 2002). However, the quantity and quality of color vision varies within and between species in the primate lineage. Primates are divided into four groups Apes, New World, Old World, and Prosimians. The New World primates are located in the rainforests of South America and surrounding areas, while the other groups of primates are distributed across Africa and Asia (Regan et al., 2005). The vast range of geographical locations inhabited by primates provide images of food requirements that vary dramatically based on environmental conditions.

Towards the beginning of the project, I was researching the psychology behind advertising. Then, slowly my focus turned to different types of advertising, and then on to children's advertising. But after the research phase of the project was complete, I began becoming slightly bored with the topic I chose, and I wasn't really sure what to produce from it. During a conversation with Mr. Moravek, he mentioned to me that he wanted to plan more charity events for next year, and I had an idea for one. I changed my gifted project into planning a Color Run. Next year, through Student Council, Conant will host a Color Run/walk in order to raise money for a charity or cause. I figured that having a run/walk would be a good way to raise money at our

In the first phase of this study that was based around recognising global features, the letters used were large H’s or S’s. In the second phase, global letters of H, S and O were used and were made up of smaller H’s or S’s, the local characters. These make up the 3 stimulus types: congruent, neutral and conflicting. The large and small letters could be combined to create 3 types of displays: 1) Consistent, where the large and small letters were the same (H printed from small H’s, or S made of small S’s). 2) Conflicting (H made of small S’s, S made of small H’s), and 3) Neutral (H made of O’s, S made of

However, evidence from a recent series of experiments conducted by MacLeod and Dunbar (1988) suggests that the processes involved in the Stroop task may have not been inadequate. In their experiment they taught participants to use color words as names for arbitrary shapes that actually appeared in a neutral color. After 288 trials where there was a 72 trials per stimulus, participants could perform this shape-naming task without difficulty. At this point, the effect that ink color had on shape naming was tested by presenting participants with conflicting and congruent stimuli for example, shapes colored to conflict or agree with their assigned names. Ink color produced large interference and facilitation effects. However, when the task was reversed, and subjects were asked to state the color of the ink in which the

First, Bergeron et al. (2009) conducted two studies with single-subject design. Acquisition of grapheme- phoneme correspondence was examined using semantic association strategy supplemented with Visual Phonics. Study 1 looked into five students who were in oral or signing programs and between 3.1 to 7.1 years old. Besides, study 2 investigated different five students who were in oral program and 3.1 to 4.5 years old. 9 weeks of intervention were conducted during the first study; on the other hand, the intervention program for the second study was six weeks long. All children were able to learn and use grapheme-phoneme correspondences; as a result, researchers concluded that the intervention was efficacious.

Overall, results indicate that the manipulation of the color of questionnaire had no effect on mood. However, there was an effect of time of day on mood as well as an effect of gender on mood. The results did not support the main hypothesis that different colors would elicit different moods. Thus, this study found no support for the prediction that brighter colors would elicit positive moods, whereas less bright colors would elicit negative moods. These results do not support past research findings that brighter colors tend to elicit positive moods, whereas, dark colors elicit negative moods (Hemphill, 1996; Kaya & Epps, 2004). Moreover, this result was not expected given the previously discussed research by Weller and Livingston (1988)

The biological processes of colour perception which happen in the brain are innate and contribute towards the way in which individuals view colour. Cones and rods work together in order to create the colour that is perceived. The psychological processes are related to the way each individual person perceives colour, and thus may be different to the next. Colour perception is different for everyone, something that is light blue to one person, may be light green to another person. Both the biological and psychological processes work together. A range of processes will be discussed throughout this essay and will demonstrate differences in the

Red tastes like tar. Can you imagine your whole life seeing stop signs, or red traffic lights and all you can taste is what can only be described as a combination of tar and body odor? Synesthesia is defined as the blending of senses such as having all the letters of the alphabet combined with a particular color or being able to look at a color and taste an actual taste and smell an actual smell. I don't just dislike the color red because it clashes with my skin tone I dislike it because tar does not taste satisfying. Synesthesia although not something I have known about forever has definitely become an extremely important and influential part of my life. The ability to look at paintings and not only see the painting but also smell is definitely

What remains the significance of color in art? Could it be the disposition and feelings it provokes to the viewer, the distinguishing factor in the meaning of a piece? Maybe color is used in the association of simply shadow work, used only in technical terms to create value and the curvature of a three dimensional illusion? Or maybe the use of color in artwork appears as simple as how one learned the use in childhood, gender identification: blue means male and pink means female. True, artists select colors to produce a certain mood or atmosphere; to create space, light, and shadow, however, in regards to the artist Cindy Sherman, color is used profoundly in gender roles and symbolism. Representation and hidden meanings found within artwork is not a new concept by far, artist have been using such method for centuries. Nonetheless, the unique and slightly nightmarish way the contemporary artist Cindy Sherman uses color in representational ways brings about a new light to a familiar technique. Cindy Sherman, an American artist born in 1954, is extensively acknowledged as one of the most prominent artist in contemporary art. During her career, Sherman has extensively used the infinite surplus of images from movies and television, the internet, magazines, as well as art history, to create a massive collection of confrontational artwork. In many of her pieces she has discovered the manufacture of contemporary identity as well as the significance of representation, especially in