A. Kimball Romney
Research Professor 
School of Social Sciences 
University of California 
Irvine, CA 92697-5100 
(949)-824-6797 
akromney@uci.edu

 

Professor Romney's recent research has focused on human color vision ranging from cross-cultural studies of color perception to representing physical reflectance spectra in low dimensional Euclidean space (selected items available in pdf format below). Other research interests include comparative cognitive studies of semantic structures, the measurement of cultural knowledge using culture consensus theory, and multidimensional scaling. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1956-57. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Ph.D. Harvard, 1956 (Social Anthropology).    VITA


Selected Recent Publications

Romney, A. Kimball. 2008. Relating reflectance spectra space to Munsell color appearance space. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A/Vol. 25, No. 3/March 2008.

Romney, A. Kimball and Fulton, James T. 2006. Transforming reflectance spectra into Munsell color space by using prime colors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103:15698-15703.

Romney, A. Kimball, Roy G. D'Andrade.  2005.  Modeling lateral geniculate nucleus cell response spectra and Munsell reflectance spectra with cone sensitivity curves.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  102:16512-16517.

Romney, A. Kimball, Roy G. D'Andrade, and Tarow Indow.  2005.  The distribution of response spectra in the lateral geniculate nucleus compared with reflectance spectra of Munsell color chips.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  102:9720-9725.  For commentary on this see  A Different Point of Hue.

Romney, A. K. and T. Indow. 2003. Munsell reflectance spectra represented in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Color Research and Application. 28:182-196. 

D'Andrade, R. G. and A. K. Romney. 2003. A quantitative model for transforming reflectance spectra into the Munsell color space using cone sensitivity functions and opponent process weights. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100:6281-6286. 

Moore, C. C., A. K. Romney, and T. Hsia. 2002. Cultural, gender, and individual differences in perceptual and semantic structures of basic colors in Chinese and English. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 2:1-28. 

Romney, A. Kimball and Tarow Indow. 2002. A model for the simultaneous analysis of reflectance spectra and basis factors of Munsell color samples under D65 illumination in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99:11543-11546.

Romney, A. Kimball and Tarow Indow. 2002. Estimating munsell reflectancer spectra from cone sensitivities or human color matching functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99:14607-14610.

Romney, A. K., C. C. Moore, W. H. Batchelder, and T. Hsia. 2000. Statistical Methods for Characterizing Similarities and Differences between Semantic Domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97:518-523.

Moore, C. C., A. K. Romney, and T. Hsia. 2000. Shared cognitive representations of perceptual and semantic structures of basic colors in Chinese and English. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97:5007-5010.

Shankle, William R., Romney, A. Kimball, Landing, Benjamin H. and Hara, Junko. 1998. Developmental patterns in the cytoarchitecture of the human cerebral cortex from birth to 6 years examined by correspondence analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95:4023-4028.

 

Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

UC Irvine School of Social Sciences