Schedule of Talks
Friday, November 2nd
9:30 Coffee and Opening Remarks: K.A. Jameson & A. K. Romney
10:30 "From Basic Color Terms to the World Color Survey: A self-indulgent chronicle". Brent Berlin & Paul Kay
11:30 "The World Color Survey (WCS) Online Digital Archive". Richard Cook
12:30 Lunch Break
2:00 "Evolutionary models of color categorization". Natalia Komarova
3:00 "A mathematical approach to color categorization studies". Nicole Fider
4:00 Coffee break
4:10 "Further evolution of natural categorization systems: A new approach to evolving color concepts". Maryam Gooyabadi
5:10 "Two Italian basic blue categories: Visualizing diatopic variation of referential meanings". Galina V. Paramei
6:10 Discussion and Adjourn
Speakers Dinner (by invitation)
Saturday, November 3rd
9:30 "The sparse, distributed, diverse mapping of color terms onto color space, Part I: Motifs and Hering theory". Angela Brown & Delwin Lindsey
10:30 "The sparse, distributed, diverse mapping of color terms onto color space, Part II: Hadzane, the color communication game, and color sorting". Delwin Lindsey & Angela Brown
11:30 "When does "Bright" mean "Prototypal"? Color-term modifiers in five European languages, examined with color-survey data". David Bimler & Mari Uuskula
12:30 Lunch break
2:00 "Color naming and cognition in computational perspective". Terry Regier
3:00 "Quantifying diachronic change in category meaning using evolutionary models of learning". Kirbi Joe
4:00 Coffee break
4:10 "Mechanisms of color, uncovered by neuroscience and language". Bevil Conway
5:10 "Color categories and the perceptual representation of color". Michael A. Webster
6:10 Discussion and adjourn
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