Project Details
Projekt
On the origin of color categories (C02)
Subject Area
General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
Term
since 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 222641018
Project C02 combines psychophysics, modeling and neuroimaging to obtain a unified account for the emergence of color categories and their relationship to object categories. In particular we try to disentangle the contributions of retinal mechanisms and attention to categorical perception of color. Through an fMRI study we investigate the neuronal basis for the interaction between color perception and categorization, and we aim to build an image-computable model that covers color vision from eye to brain.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Project Head
Professor Karl Reiner Gegenfurtner, Ph.D.
