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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Effects of visual diet on colour discrimination and preference.

Alice E Skelton, John Maule, Simeon Floyd, Beata Wozniak, Asifa Majid, Jenny M Bosten, Anna Franklin

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Visual search for warm and cool colors.Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision · 2025
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7 authors.

Alice E SkeltonThe Sussex Colour Group & Baby Lab, School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
John MauleThe Sussex Colour Group & Baby Lab, School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0627-4139
Simeon FloydColegio de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad San Francisco de Quito , Quito, Ecuador.
Beata WozniakThe Sussex Colour Group & Baby Lab, School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
Asifa MajidDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford , Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.
Jenny M BostenSussex Vision Lab, School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
Anna FranklinThe Sussex Colour Group & Baby Lab, School of Psychology, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2201-4377

Funding

H2020 European Research Council Ref 772193, Project COLOURMIND
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To what extent is perception shaped by low-level statistical regularities of our visual environments and on what time scales? We characterized the chromatic 'visual diets' of people living in remote rainforest and urban environments, using calibrated head-mounted cameras worn by participants as they went about their daily lives. All environments had chromatic distributions with the most variance along a blue-yellow axis, but the extent of this bias differed across locations. If colour perception is calibrated to the visual environments in which participants are immersed, variation in the extent of the bias in scene statistics should have a corresponding impact on perceptual judgements. To test this, we measured colour discrimination and preferences for distributions of colour for people living in different environments. Group differences in the extent of blue-yellow bias in colour discrimination were consistent with perceptual learning in local environments. Preferences for colour distributions aligned with scene statistics, but not specifically to local environments, and one group preferred distributions along an unnatural colour axis orthogonal to that dominant in natural scenes. Our study shows the benefits of conducting psychophysics with people at remote locations for understanding the commonalities and diversity in human perception.

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Color PerceptionAdultEnvironmentFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultcolourdiscriminationperceptionpreferencescene statistics

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PMID39288808
PMCPMC11407866

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