International Journal of Affective Engineering

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Volume 17 (2018) Issue 3 Pages 193-204

An Experimental Study on the Continuous Patterns of the Influence of Color Focality on Short-term Memory Performance of Colors

Siyuan FANG, Tatsunori MATSUI

Past studies have reported that language-specific color focality has substantial influence on short-term memory (STM) performance of colors of the speakers of the language, which we call the “focality effect.” This study attempts to clarify the continuous patterns of this effect, that is, the manner in which correct recognition possibilities and misrecognition error distances of colors, which are two aspects of the STM performance of colors, change in a gradual fashion along the continuum of color focality. Our experiment, which tests the Japanese language, finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between the focality and the possibility of correct recognition, and that the misrecognition error distance increases as the focality decreases. We speculate that the subjects' frequent and conscious employment of the memorization strategy of coding colors using linguistic color categories is one important cause of the detected effect patterns.

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2022 Volume 21 Issue 3

How do the Indoor Illumination Levels Affect Social and Cognitive Behaviors? Atsuo ISHIKAWA, Takashi KUSUMI
Current Status of Outpatient Nurses’ Support for the Psychological Concerns of Outpatients with Cancer Arisa TANAKA, Satoru IWASE, Yoji INOUE
Linking the Kansei Food Model to the General Affective Engineering Model Simon SCHÜTTE, Lluis MARCO-ALMAGRO
Personalized Music Playlist Generation Method for Placing the Listener in a Positive Mood Shunki MORIZUMI, Akihiro OGINO

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