This work has now appeared in Nature Neuroscience:
Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2006) Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience,  9, 1367-1368. [PubMed]

Tuesday, January 12th saw the first Cambridge Research Systems sponsored lecture at the annual Colour Group scientific meeting. The lecture was presented by Karl Gegenfurtner from Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen. In his talk, entitled Color Constancy, Categorization, and Memory Colors, he reported an intriguing series of experiments that he has recently conducted with his colleagues Sebastian Walter and Thorsten Hansen. All of the experiments were concerned with the categorisation and naming of colours.

Cambridge Research Systems supported Professor Gegenfurtner's travelling costs as an unrestricted educational grant as part of our on-going support of the Vision Science community. We are committed to a programme of active involvement in a wide range of academic and research activities.

The Colour Group is a voluntary organisation that brings together a wide variety of individuals and organisations that have an interest in colour. Members include artists, psychologists, physiologists and physicists among others. Meeting are held regular throughout the year. For more details see http://www.city.ac.uk/colourgroup/

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