Sebastian Walter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sebastian Walter plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 7. Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory: A cross-cultural re-investigation Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 123–145 | Chapter
About one hundred years ago, Wassily Kandinsky (1912) put forward a theory of aesthetically better or less fitting colour-form combinations, postulating that yellow corresponds with the triangle, red with the square, and blue with the circle. The present cross-cultural study, in Germany and Vanuatu… read more
2011 Perceiving “grue”: Filter simulations of aged lenses support
the Lens-Brunescence hypothesis and reveal individual categorization types New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 329–342 | Article
Many languages have only one term for “green” and “blue”, generally called “grue”. Since they are especially spoken near the equator, Lindsay and Brown (2002) suggested that “grue” categories are caused by lens-brunescence, resulting from chronic exposure to high amounts of UV radiation. Due to… read more