title: The effect of memory and context changes on color matches to real objects.
abstract: Real-world color identification tasks often require matching the color of objects between contexts and after a temporal delay, thus placing demands on both perceptual and memory processes. Although the mechanisms of matching colors between different contexts have been widely studied under the rubric of color constancy, little research has investigated the role of long-term memory in such tasks or how memory interacts with color constancy. To investigate this relationship, observers made color matches to real study objects that spanned color space, and we independently manipulated the illumination impinging on the objects, the surfaces in which objects were embedded, and the delay between seeing the study object and selecting its color match. Adding a 10-min delay increased both the bias and variability of color matches compared to a baseline condition. These memory errors were well accounted for by modeling memory as a noisy but unbiased version of perception constrained by the matching methods. Surprisingly, we did not observe significant increases in errors when illumination and surround changes were added to the 10-minute delay, although the context changes alone did elicit significant errors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 311 N. Fifth Street, Camden, NJ, 08102, USA, srallred@scarletmail.rutgers.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Allred
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olkkonen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008029:Lighting; D057567:Memory, Long-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult
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