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Date Recorded
1984-09-28
Date Digitized
2024
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Physical Location
Original cassette held by UPEI Archives and Special Collections
Duration
01:00:00
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
00:00 Introduction from Pratt

01:30 Nilsson begins speaking

02:30 Discussion of the question of a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it

04:30 Discussion of the presence of colour if no one observes it

06:00 Discussion of the importance of colour to human biology

07:00 Discussion of infrared pictures of space

08:30 Discussion of colouring infrared pictures

09:30 Discussion of how the mind assigns colour

11:00 Discussion of the history of colour theories

14:00 Discussion of research at the University of Pennsylvania on fibres in the optic nerve

16:00 Discussion of other studies relating to the production of colour in the eye

18:00 Discussion of studies on colour receptors in monkeys

21:00 Discussion on the effects of flickering light on the perception of colour

23:00 Discussion of utilising a monochromator to study colour perception

27:30 Discussion of techniques developed to study colour; study on memory

29:00 Discussion of findings on memory and colour perception

30:00 Discussion of light receptors in the eyes, signals in the optic nerve

33:30 Discussion of monochromatic light

35:00 Discussion of the methodology of Nilsson's study

36:00 Discussion of time as a controlled variable in the study

37:00 Discussion of the results from Nilsson's study

40:30 Discussion of systems for identifying and specifying colour

43:30 Beginning of question period; inaudible question

44:00 Answer regarding memory for colour

49:30 Question regarding graphs representing wavelength

50:30 Question regarding colour blind people's perception of colour

52:00 Question regarding green receptors in the eye

55:00 Question regarding colour as a human invention

59:30 End of seminar