Table 1.
Colour Stimuli Used in Experiment 1 (Colour Terms) and Experiment 2 (Colour Patches).
| Colour term (Experiment 1) | Colour patch (Experiment 2) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munsell colour order system |
CIE1931 coordinates |
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| Hue | Value | Chroma | Y (cd/m2) | x | y | |
| Red | 5.00 R | 4 | 14 | 12.00 | .57 | .31 |
| Orange | 5.00 YR | 6 | 12 | 30.05 | .51 | .42 |
| Yellow | 5.00 Y | 8 | 14 | 59.44 | .45 | .48 |
| Green | 2.50 G | 5 | 12 | 20.99 | .27 | .50 |
| Turquoise | 7.50 BG | 6 | 8 | 30.38 | .22 | .33 |
| Blue | 10.00 B | 6 | 10 | 30.05 | .20 | .24 |
| Purple | 7.50 P | 4 | 10 | 12.00 | .31 | .22 |
| Pink | 7.50 RP | 7 | 8 | 43.07 | .37 | .31 |
| Brown | 7.50 YR | 3 | 6 | 6.55 | .49 | .42 |
| White | 10.00 RP | 9.5 | 0 | 90.01 | .31 | .33 |
| Grey | 10.00 RP | 6 | 0 | 30.05 | .31 | .33 |
| Black | 10.00 RP | 1.5 | 0 | 2.02 | .31 | .33 |
| Grey (background) | 10.00 RP | 5 | 0 | 18.58 | .31 | .32 |
Note. Munsell values for colour patches taken from Lindsey and Brown (2014). The last columns show the CIE1931 xyY values for our patches.