{"pk":27151,"title":"Experimental Investigation into the Continuous Pattern of the RelationshipBetween Color Focality and Short-Term Memory Performance for Colors","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Past studies reported that language-specific color focality hassubstantial influence on the short-term memory (STM) perfor-mance of colors of the speakers of the language, which we callthe ”focality effect.” This study attempts to clarify the contin-uous pattern of this effect, that is, the manner in which correctrecognition possibilities and misrecognition error distances ofcolors, which are two aspects of the STM performance for col-ors, change in a gradual fashion along the continuum of colorfocality. Our experiment, which tests the Japanese language,finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between the focalityand the possibility of correct recognition, and that the mis-recognition error distance increases as the focality decreases.We speculate that the subjects’ frequent and conscious employ-ment of the memorization strategy of coding colors using lin-guistic categories is one important cause of the detected effectpatterns.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"color focality; short-term memory; continuouspattern; color discriminability; basic color terms"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/907801db","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Siyuan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Fang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Waseda University","department":""},{"first_name":"Tatsunori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matsui","name_suffix":"","institution":"Waseda University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27151/galley/16787/download/"}]}