Ryan LangeUniversity of Chicago | UC · Department of Psychology
Ryan Lange
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I study how our visual systems construct representations of what we see, and how that construction may be modified by our experiences. Using illusions, masking protocols, and psychophysical techniques, I investigate how our brains build models of the world that are integrated, organized, and unambiguous. With studies of learning, information, and communication, I study how experiences modify and give meaning to those models.
Education
September 2016 - August 2022
May 2013 - December 2015
Publications
Publications (8)
When participants sort color samples into piles, Boster showed that their color groupings can resemble the “stages” of Kay and McDaniel's model of color term evolution. Boster concluded that both the unfolding of color piles in a sequential color sorting task and the unfolding of color terms according to Kay and McDaniel's model reveal how human be...
This study examines the cross‐cultural generality of Hering's (1878/1964) color‐opponent theory of color appearance. English‐speaking and Somali‐speaking observers performed variants of two paradigms classically used to study color‐opponency. First, both groups identified similar red, green, blue, and yellow unique hues. Second, 25 English‐speaking...
Ambiguity resolution, perceptual grouping, and feature integration all occur seamlessly and subconsciously. When multiple regions of an image share ambiguous features, perceptual grouping can yield an integrated object percept rather than one of multiple objects, each with its individual features. Here, perceptual resolution and grouping of chromat...
Despite numerous prior studies, important questions about the Japanese color lexicon persist, particularly about the number of Japanese basic color terms and their deployment across color space. Here, 57 native Japanese speakers provided monolexemic terms for 320 chromatic and 10 achromatic Munsell color samples. Through k-means cluster analysis we...
